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CONTENTS 



History of New York — 
Historical Localities 
General View 
New York as it is 

Central Park — 

Origin and Early History 

Location and Area 

Cost 

Gateways and Approaches 

General Features 

Museum 

Play Grounds 

The Mall 

The Terrace 

The Lake 

The Ramble 

The Upper Park 

How to Get to the Park 
Parks and Public Squar es 
Amusements — 

Academy of Music . 

Booth's Theatre 

Bryant's Minstrels . 

Fifth Avenue Theatre . 

Grand Opera House 

Lyceum 

New York Circus 

Niblo's Garden 

Olympic Theatre . 

San Francisco Minstrels 

Union Square Theatre 

Wallack's Theatre 

Wood's Museum 



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43 

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59 
63 
67 
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73 
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76 
78 
81 

82 

106 

95 
104 

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103 
105 
106 

90 

105 

87 

96 

101 



Public Buildings — Page. 

New Court House . . . . . .107 

City Hall . ...... 108 

Hall of Records . . . . ... 108 

Hall of Justice . . . . . . I09 

Department of Charities and Correction . . . I09 

City Armory . . . . . 109 

U.S. Treasury and Assay Office . . . .110 

Custom House . . j . . . . 110 

Post Office . . . . . . .111 

Public Works — 

Croton Aqueduct, . . . . 114 

High Bridge, . . . . . . .115 

Benevolent Institutions — 

Blackwell's, Ward's and Randall's Islands, . . . 1I7 

Insane Asylum, (Bloomingdale) . . . .118 

Orphan Asylum, . . . . . . 118 

Hospitals, . . . . . . .119 

Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, . . . 1 20 
Institution for the Blind, ..... 121 

Houses of Industry, . . . . . 121 

Sailor's Snug Harbor, . . . . . . 12Z 

Societies and Associations — 

Young Men's Christian Association, . . . . 124 

National Academy of Design, . . . . .131 

Libraries — 

Astor Library, . . . . . . 133 

Mercantile Library, . . . . . 135 

Colleges and Seminaries, ... .135 

Churches, . . . . . . . .138 

Greenwood Cemetery, . . . . . . 149 

Environs of the City, . . ... . .157 

Forts and Fortifications, . . . . 160 

Foreign Consuls, ..... .162 

Watering Places, ... 163 




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The first edition of this work met with such a flattering reception, both 
from the proprietors of the leading Hotels in this city, and from the traveling 
public ; that we have been induced to re-issue it revised and improved. 

Our object has been not only to indicate the names and localities of all 
places of interest, but to add such brief notices of them as would not fail to be 
of service to the stranger desiring to inspect our city. 

We beg leave to call the attention of visitors to New York to the list of 
business houses under " Where to Buy." We recommend these as being first- 
class places for the purchase of goods ; buyers will meet not only with every 
attention, but will be fairly dealt with, both as to quality of goods and scale 
of prices. 

It may not be uninteresting to know that the " Hotel Guests' Guide " 
has a circulation of three thousand copies, divided between the following 
named first-class Hotels, viz. : 



ASTOIl, ----- 200 GILSBY, - 150 NEW YORK, - - - 200 

BREVOORT, - - - 150 GRAMMERCY PARK, - 100 ST. DENIS, - - - - 100 

CLARENDON, - - 150 I GRAND, - 150 ST. JAMES, - - - - 150 

COLEMAN, - - - - 150 I GRAND CENTRAL, - 200 j ST. NICHOLAS, - - 250 

EARLS, ----- 200 HOFFMAN, ----- 200 | STTJRTEVANT, - - 200 

EVERETT, - - - - 150 METROPOLITAN, - - 200 WESTMINSTER, - 100 



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AGENTS, ADVERTISING. 
ROWELL GEO. P., & CO., 41 Park Row. 
See Advt. on Back Cover. 



AGENTS, REAL ESTATE 
KAVANAGH JOHN, cor. 42dSt. & oth av 
See Advt. page 58. 

AMMUNITION. 
REMINGTON E. & SONS, 283 Broadway. 

See Advt. opp. back cover. 
SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 & 22 John & 19 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt inside back cover. 

ARTISTS. 

KURTZ W., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 26. 
SARONY, 680 Baoadway, 

See Advt. page 28. 

BATHS. (RUSSIAN.) 

€APES ALICE, 23 & 25 East 4th St, 

See Advt page 62. 

BATHS. (TURKISH) 

MILLER, HAYNES& CO, 37, 39 & 41 

"West 26th St See Advt. page 26 

BERLIN WOOLS. 

LAUZIN MADAME A. 144 Fifth Av. 
See Advt. opp. History N. Y. 

BOOT & SHOE MAKERS. 

ALEXANDER ANDREW, 357 6th Av. 
See Advt. page 94. 

BDRTS' SHOES AT RETAIL, 357 6th 
Avenue. See Advt. page 94. 



BOOT & SHOE MAKERS (CON.) 

GLAZE & SON, 663 Broadway, 

See Advt. page 38. 
JANTZEN H. 284 Sixth Av. 

See Advt. page 46 
THIERRY E. J., 816 Broadway. 

See Advt. opp. Copyright Page. 
WALKER ALEX., 397 Sixth Ave. 

See Advt. page 48. 

BOYS CLOTHING. 

CLEMENTS W. B 826 Broadway. 
See Advt. opp. 1st page History of N. Y. 

BRONZES 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM., 
20 & 22 John St. & 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. inside back cover. 
SHEPARD, LEBOUTILIER & CO., 
10 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. opp. "Where to Buy" 
TAYLOR, OLMSTED & TAYLOR., 5 
Bond Street See Advt. page 64. 

BURGLAR ALARM. 

HOLMES E , 7 Murray street, 

See Advt , page 68. 

CAMEO LIKENESSES. 

BERNARD & BONET, 599 Broadway. 
See Advt. page 44. 

CARD ENGRAVERS. 

GIMBREDE, 1190 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 92. 

CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS. 
BRADLEY, PRAY & CO., 658 Broadway 
See Advt., opposite front cover. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



CHAMPAGNES. 

RIFFLARD'S JOS. SONS, 42 Vesey st. 
See Avt., pages 98 & 99. 

CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. 

BRAMHALL, SMITH & CO., 

128 Chambers street. 
See Advt, opp. front cover. 
SCHWARZ FRED. A. 0.,765 Broadway 
S< e Advt., page 36. 



CHILDREN'S FANCY GOODS. 

THURN Madame L., 884 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 58. 



CHINA AND GLASSWARE. 
BRUNDIGE RUFDS M., 919 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 50. 
HINRICHS C. F. A., 29 31 & 33 Park 

Place. gee Advt., page 84. 

STRASBDRGER & PFEIb'FER,394 
B'dway See Advt., opp. Title page. 

VOGT JOHN & CO., 35 & 37 Park place. 
See Advt., page 80 



CONFECTIONERS. 

RIDLEY & CO., cor. Chambers & Hudson, 
& 1 149 B'way. See Advt . page 50. 



CORSETS & CRINOLINES 

OLMSTEAD R. A., 781 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 44. 

PHILtPSON Mme. HENRIETTE, 216 8th 
Avenue. See Advt.. page 48. 

SMITH Mrs. JENNY L. 175, 347 & 64] 
6th Avenue. See Advt., page 30. 

STIEBEL & CO.. 201 6th Avenue. 
See Advt., opp last of Where to Buy. 

STONE OL1YE AUGUSTA. 1191 B'way 
See Advt., page 20. 



COSTUM.ER. 
WIRTZ, 23 Bleecker street. 

See Advt, page 102. 



CUTLERY. 
SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM. 
20 & 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. inside back cover. 



DENTISTS. 
ALLEN J. & SON, 22 Bond street. 

See Advt., page 32. 

HOWE J. MORGAN, 9 E. 17th street. 

See Advt., page 146. 

DECALCOMANIE. 
SHUTE R. L., 894 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 140. 



DECORATORS (House & Church). 
DeYULDER & STEELE, 1212 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 44. 

DERMATOLOGIST. 

GRAY Madame, 31 Lafayette place. 

See Advt., page 50. 

DIAMONDS. 

SMITH & HEDGES., 1 Maden Lane. 

See Advc. page 64. 

DRESS & CLOAK MAKERS 

COOLEY MADAME E., 884^ Broadway, 

See Advt. page 24. 
COOLEY MADAME ROSALIE., 866 
Broadway See Advt. page 28 

DONOYAN MRS. C, 8 East 18th St. 

See Advt. page 97. 
DOUGLASS MADAME M. A., 13 E. 17th 

See Advt. page 97 
GILLOTTE MONS. 685 Sixth Av. 

See Advt. page 102. 

GOLDSMITH MISS E. 14 East 15th. 

See Advt. page 34. 
GRIPPEN A. J. & CO., 16 Clinton Place. 

See Advt. page 46. 
GROAT MRS. O. S. 16 East 15th St. 

See Advt. page 60. 

HOLDEN MART A., 133 West 23rd St. 
See Advt- opp Preface. 

JEFFREYS M. & E., 21 Brevoort Place. 

See Advt. page 42. 
LAFONTAINE MADAME & CO., 405 
Sixth Ave. See Advt. page 146. 

LAFORCADE MME., 6 West 11th St. 

See Advt. page 18. 
MANNERS MME. & CO. S20 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 26. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



PARKER MAD. B., 16 Clinton Place, 

See Advt. page 46. 
PHELAN MRS. M., 344 Fourth Ave. 

See Advt. page 14C. 
PICHON THERESE., 246 Fourth Av. 

See Advt. page 66. 
PRATT BROS., 861 Broadway, 

See Advt opp. Preface. 
ROGER MME. C. 70 University Place. 
See Advt. page 48. 
ROULLIER-AUGIER MADAME., 17 E, 

17th St. See Advt page 38. 

VIOL MLLES. 65 East 12th Street. 

See Advt. page 140. 
"WEBB MADAME., 813 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 48. 

DRESSING CASES. 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM. 
20 & 22 John St. & 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. inside back cover. 

DRUGGISTS FANCY GOODS. 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 & 22 John St. & 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. inside back cover. 

DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES, 

SCOTT, PLATT & CO., 1211 Broadway. 
See Advt. page 165. 

DRY GOODS. 

CARTWRIGHT E. R. 20 E. 14th St. 

See Advt, page 18. 

DYERS, 
BARRETT, NEPHEWS & CO-5& 7 John 

See Advt. page 30. 
LORD EDWIN., Ill 8th Av. & 934 B'way 

See Advt. opp. Copyright Page 
NEW YORK DYEING & PRINTING 
ESTABLISHMENT-, 98 Duane St. 
See Advt. page 46. 

ELASTIC STOCKINGS, 

D ARROW & CO., 1227 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 56. 



EMBLEMATIC SIGNS, 

WASHBURNE., 4 Courtlandt St. 

See Advt. page 46. 



EMBROIDERY STAMPING, 

BADOUREAU & CO.. 125 Fourth Av. 
See Advt. page 161 

FANCY GOODS. 

HINRICHS C. F. A., 29, 31 & 33 Park 
Place. See Advt., page 84. 

SCHWARZ FRED. A. O., 765 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 36. 

SCOTT PLATT & CO., 1211 Broadway. 
See Advt.. page 165. 

STRASBURGER, & PFEIFFER, 394 
B'dway. See Advt., opp. Title page. 

FANCY FRENCH & VIENNA GOODS. 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 & 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 

SHEPARD, LE BOUTILIER & CO., 
10 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., opp. " Where to Buy." 

FANCY LEATHER GOODS, 

CULBERT & CO., 24 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt., page 22. 

PRATT CHAS. D., 41 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., opp. first page of Contents. 

SCOTT, PLATT & CO., 1211 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 165. 



FASHIONS, IMPORTER OF. 

SMITH, A. BURDETTE, 914 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 52. 



FERROTYPES. 

ESTABROOKE, 31 Union Square. 

See Advt., page 88. 

FLORISTS. 

LE MOULT ADOLPH, 7 Union Square. 
See Advt., page 100. 

REID WALTER, cor, 34th st. & B'dway. 
See Advt.. page 38, 



WHERE TO BUY 



FLOWER PRESERVING. 

LE MOULT A DOLPH, 1 Uiiion Square. 
See Advt, page 100. 



FURNITURE. 

HERTS 1 CO.. 806 & 808 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 22. 
HUTCHINGS E. W. & SON, 99 & 101 4th 

Avenue. See Advt., page 24. 

KOECHLING BERNHARD, 58 & 60 
University Place. See Advt., page 92. 
PHELPS «fc DOREMUS, 264 & 266 Canal. 
See Advt., page 140. 



FURS AND FUR DEALERS. 

ESTER WILLIAM, 51 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., page 40. 

GUNTHER C. G. & SONS, 502 & 504 
Broadway. Sec Advt., page 54. 

ZUGALLA CHAS. H., 39 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., page 36. 

gamingTmplements. 

WILLIAMS GEO. W., 98 Elm street. 
See Advt., page 48. 

GATLING GUNS- 

SCHUYLER HARTLEY & GRAHAM 
20 & 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 

GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS- 
PHELAN WALTER A., 693 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 92. 

GERMAN ZEPHYR WORSTED- 

I AUZIN Madame A., 144 Fifth Avenue. 
See Advt., opp. .." History of N. Y." 



GOLD PENS AND PENCILS. 

MABIE, TODD & CO., 180 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 92. 

GUNS, PISTOLS AND RIFLES. 

MOORE'S JOHN P., SONS, 204 Broadway 
See Advt., page 66. 

REMINGTON E. & SONS, 283 Broadway. 

See Advt., opp. back cover. 
SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 & 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 



HAIR (ORNAMENTAL) GOODS. 
PECKHAM CHAS. Y. 687 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 100. 
KRLLEY K. & N. 697 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 66. 
LA COUR M. E. 423 Sixth Av. 

See Advt. page 46. 
MA REG A G., 765 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 44. 

ROGERS CHAS. & CO., 317 Canal St. & 

383 6th Ave See Advt. page 40. 

SHAW MADAME. 352 Bowery & 363 

Sixth Ave. See Advt. page 48 

SHINDHELM M. 100 Bowery. 

See Advt. page 66. 
STIEBEL & CO., 201 Sixth Av. 

See Advt. opp last of Where to Buy. 
WAGNER F. 823 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 62. 

HATTERS. 

CONDON JOHN., 6 Amity St. 

See Advt. page 102. 
MILLER EDWARD, 4 Astor Place. 
See Advt. page 66. 

HOSIERY & GLOVES. 

DEVIN JOHN C. 1192 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 26. 

HOTEL ANNUNCIATOR. 

HOLMES E. 7 Murray St- 

See Advt. page 68. 

INDIA CAMELS HAIR SHAWLS!" 

RUSSELL J., '33 East 20th Street. 

See Advt. page 28. 

KID GLOVES. 

STIEBEL & CO., 201 Sixth Av. 

See Advt. opp. last of Where to Buy 

LACES & EMBROIDERIES. 

CARTWRIGHT E. R., 20 E. 14th St. 

See Advt. page 1 8. 
EISIG B., 218 Sixth Avenue. 

See Advt. page 40. 
FRANK M. & CO.,',783 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 44. 
GUERIN Madame E., 757 Broadway. 
See Advt. opp. last of Where to Buy 



WHERE TO BUY. 



LACES & EMBROIDERIES, 

LANCASTER & CO., 917 Broadway, 

See Advt. page 46. 

MJLLER <fc GRANT., 879 Broadway- 
See Advt. page 40. 

RICHMOND & CO., 925 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 20. 
RICHMOND G. <fe CO., 783 Broadway. 
See Advt. opp. last of Where to Buy. 
SHAW & EATON., 1105 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 20. 

STIEBEL & CO., 201 Sixth Ave- 
See Advt. opp last of Where to Buy. 



LADIES BOOTS AND SHOES. 

ALEXANDER ANDREW, 351 6th Av. 

See Advt.' page 94." 
BURTS' SHOES AT RETAIL, 351 6th 

Avenue See Advt, page 94 

BIXBT & CO. 8 Astor Place. 

See Advt. page 44. 
LETSINGER H. C, 26 East 1 4th Street. 

See Advt. page 66. 

JANTZEN H., 284 Sixth Ave. 

See Advt. page 46. 
WALKER ALEX, 397 Sixth Ave. 

See Advt. page 48. 

LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS, 
MANUF. OF. 

CROSLEY C. W., 635 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 56. 

LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S 
ROUND HATS. 
MYERS HY. V., 868 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 146. 



LADIES' FANCY GOODS. 

EISIG B., 218 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 40. 

GUERIN Madame E., 757 Broadway. 
See Advt., opp. last of " Whereto Buy." 

ROGERS CHAS. & CO., 317 Canal street. 
6th Av See Advt.. page 40. 

STIEBEL & CO., 201 Sixth Avenue. 
See Advt., opp. last of "Where to Buy." 



LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS. 
DEVIN JOHN C, 1192 Broadway. 

See Advt. : page 26. 

LANCASTER & CO., 917 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 46. 

MILLER <fe GRANT, S79 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 40. 

RICHMOND & CO., 925 Broadway. 

See Advt.. page 20. 

RICHMOND G. & CO., 783 Broadway. 
See Advt., opp. last of "Where to Buy." 

LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS?" 

PECKHAM CHAS. V., 687 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 100. ' 
LA COTJR M. E., 423 Sixth Avenue. 

See Advt., page 46. 
WAGNER F. 823 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 62. 

LADIES' SUITS 

CARTWRIGHT E. R, 20 E., 14th street. 

See Advt., page 18. 
PRATT BROS., 861 Broadway, 

See Advt., opp. Preface. 

LADIES' UNDERGARMENTS. 

OLMSTEAD R. A., 781 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 44, 

SMITH, Mrs. JENNY L., 175, 347 & 641 
6th Avenue. See Advt , page 30. 

STONE OLIVE AUGUSTA, 1191 B'way. 
See Advt., page 20. 

SULLIVAN M., 33 E. 27th street. 

See Advt., page 58. 



LINGERIE. 

LAFORCADE Mine., 6 West Uth street. 
See Advt,, page 18. 

LA TOURETTE Mme. R. DE, 144 5th Av. 
See Advt., opp. " History of N. ^V' 



LOAN BROKERS. 
ITNDO BROTHERS, 1267 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 60. 



MATHEMATICAL INST. 

PIKES BEN J., SON, 518 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 54. 

MASONIC ~& SOCIETY EMBLEMS. 

SCHUSTER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 and 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt, inside back cover. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



MILITARY GOODS. 
SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GBAHAM, 
20 and 22 Johu, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 

"milliners. 

DONOVAN, Mrs. C, 8 East 18th. 

See Advt., page 97. 
DORSEY Miss, 27 East 20th. 

See Advt., page 66. 

DOUGLASS Mme. M. A., 13 East 17th. 
See Advt,, page 97. 

GUERIN Madame R., 757 Broadway. 
See Advt., opp. last of " Where to Buy. 

HASTINGS Mrs. R. A., 16 East 15th. 
See Advt., page 60. 

HIGGINS Miss A., 284 4th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 102. 

HIGGINS, M. T., 32 West 14th street. 
See Advt., page 56. 

JEFFERYS, M. & E., 21 Brevoort place 
See Advt., page 42. 

KEANE A. M., 359 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 66. 

LAFONTAINE Mine. & CO., 405 6th Av. 
See Advt., page 146. 

LAFORCADE Mme., 6 West 11th. 

See Advt., page 18. 

M'KENNA Miss C, 1213+ Broadway. 
See Advt., page 161. 

MEIN Mad. R., 870 & 872 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 60. 

MICHEL Madame A., 423 Sixth Avenue. 
See Advt., page 28. 

MOORE Mrs. WM. A., 1286 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 42. 

MYERS HY. V., 868 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 146. 

PAGE M. A., 29 Waverley place. 

See Advt., opp. first page Contents. 

PHELAN Mrs. M., 344 4th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 146. 

PORTER & DOANE Mesdames, 949 B'dwy 
A. 179 5th Av. See Advt., page 42. 

ROMER Madame CECIL, 889 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 97. 

SNEDDEN Mllo., 183 5ih Av. & 953 B'dwy 
See Advt., page 42. 



MILLINERY GOODS. 

GUERIN Madame E., 757 Broadway. 
See Advt., last of "Whereto Buy." 

MILLER & GRANT, 879 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 40. 

RICHMOND & CO., 925 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 20. 

RICHMOND G. & CO., 783 Broadway. 
See Advt. opp last of Where to Buy. 

MUSICAL BOXES. 
PAILLARD M. J. & CO., 680 Broadway 
See Advt. opp. Title Page 

SHEPARD, LE BOUTILIER & CO., 
1 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. opp. Where to Buy. 

"musical instruments. 

SONTAG HERMAN 14 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. opp. secondpage Content. 

~opera~glasses. 

PIKE'S BENJ. SON., 518 Broadway. 
See Advt. pa£<» 54. 

OPTICIANS. 

PIKE'S BENJ. SON 518 Broadway, 

See Advt. page 54. 

ORDNANCE & ORDNANCE STORES 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM., 
20 & 22 John St. and 19 Maiden Lane 
See Advt, inside back cover. 

~~ PATTERN BAZAArT" 

SMITH A. BURDETTE., 914 Broadway, 
See Advt page 52. 

PERFUMERS 

COLGATE & CO., 53 and 55 John street. 
See Advt., inside front cover. 

SCOTT, PLATT & CO., 1211 Broadway 
See Advt, page 165. 

PHOTOGRAPHERS. 

; CAMPBELL & HECKER, 46 E. 14th St. 
See Advt. page 30. . 

ESTABROOKE , 31 Union Square. 

See Advt. page 88. 

FREDRICKS CHAS. D. & CO., 587 & 
1184 Broadway. See Advt. page 48. 

KURTZ W., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 26. 

LEWIS R. H., 8S9 Broadway., 

See Advt. opp. last of Where to Buy. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



PHOTOGRAPHERS. 

MORA., 701 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 56 
SARONY, 680 Broadway, 

See Advt. page 28. 

PHOTO. MATERIALS. 

ANTHONY E. & H. T. <£CO, 591 Bdway 
See Advt. page 46. 



PICKLES & PRESERVES. 

LEE C. E. & CO., 166 Greenwich St. 

See Advt. page 80. 

PORTRAITS (CAMEO,) 
BERNARD & BONET, 599 Broadway, 
See Advt. page 44 

REFLECTORS. 

U. S. REFLECTOR CO , 613 Broadway 
See Advt. page 44. 



SAUCES. 

LEE C. E, & CO., 166 Greenwich Street. 
See Advt. page 80. 

SEEDSMEN & FLORISTS, 

LE MOULT ADOLPH., 7 Union Square. 
See Advt. page 100. 



SHOULDER BRACES, 
DARROW & CO., 1227 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 56. 



SILVERWARE, 

SCHUYLER, HARTL EY & GRAHAM 
20 & 22 John St. & 1 9 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 

~~S0AP MANUFACTURERS. 
COLGATE & CO., 53 and 55 John street. 
See Advt., inside front cover. 

SPECTACLES, 

PIKE'S BENJ. SON., 518 Broadway,, 

See Advt. page 54. 

STATIONERS. 

FRANCIS & LOUTREL, 45 Maiden lane 
See Advt, opp second page Contents 

GIMBREDE, 1190 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 92. 



STEAM ENGINES. 

BAXTER STEAM ENGINE CO., 18 Park 
place See Advt., opp. Copyright page. 

STEREOSCOPES. 

BECKERS ALEX., 560 Broadway. 

See Advt,, page 44. 

""surgical instruments. 

DARROW & CO., 1227 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 56. 

TAGS 

PHILLIPS & CO., 1360 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 34. 

TAILORS (MERCHANT). 

ELLIOT & CO., 756 Broadway. 

See Advt, page 84. 

THEATRICAL GOODS. 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM 
20 and 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt,, inside back cover. 

TOILET ARTICLES. 

GOURAUD Dr. T. FELIX, 48 Bond st. 
See Advt., page 34. 

GRAY Madame, 31 Lafayette Place. 
See Advt., page 50. 

SCOTT, PLATT, 6c CO., 1211 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 165. 

TOILET SOAPS, 
COLGATE & CO., 53 and 55 John st. 
See Advt., inside front cover. 

TOYS. 

BRAMHALL, SMITH & CO., 128 Cham- 
bers. See Advt., opp. front cover. 

HINRICHS C. F. A., 29, 31 & 33 Park pi . 
See Advt., page 84. 

.NATIONAL TOY CO., 299 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 58. 

SCHWARZ FREDK. A. O., 765 B'dway. 
See Advt., page 36. 

STRASBURGER & PFEIFFER, 394 
B'dway. See Advt., opp, title page. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



TRAVELING BAGS. 
CULBERT rf- CO,, 24 Maiden Lane, 

See Advt., page 22. 

KAVANAGH JOHN, cor. 42d st. & 6th 
Av. See Advt., page 30. 

PRATT CHAS. D., 41 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. opp. first page of Contents. 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 and 22 John, and 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 

TRUNKS. 
KAVANAGH John, cor. 42d st., & 6th 



Av. 



See Advt., page 30. 



TKUSSES. 

DARROW & CO., 1227 Broadway 

See Advt. page 56. 

UNIPOEMS 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY* GRAHAM, 
20 & 22 John St. & 19 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. inside back cover. 



WATCHES AND JEWELRY. 
BENEDICT BROS., 691 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 70. 

KENNARD CHAS. W. <fc CO.. 

122 Tremont Street, Boston. 

See Advt page 140 

SCHUYLER, HARTLEY & GRAHAM, 
20 rf- 22 John St. <fc 19 Maiden Lane 
See Advt. inside back cover 

TAYLOR, OLMSTED & TAYLOR., 
5 Bond St. See Advt. page 64. 



WORSTEDS k EMBROIDERIES. 

LAUZIN MADAME A., 144 Fifth Av. 
See Advt. opp History of N. Y. 

THURN Madame L., 884 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 58. 

WINES. 

RIFFLARD JOS. & SONS, 42 Vesey st 
See Advt,, pages 68 <fe 99. 



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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 



NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 



HISTORICAL LOCALITIES. 

The denizens of New York are such utilitarians that 
they have sacrificed to the shrine of Mammon almost every 
relic of the olden time. The feeling of veneration for the 
past, so characteristic of the cities of the Old World, is 
lamentably deficient among the people of the New. Still, 
as there are some who may take an interest in knowing 
even the sites of memorable historic places of the city, we 
will briefly refer to some of them. Few, we presume, are 
not patriotic enough to gaze with interest as they pass 
through Franklin Square, on the site of the old town man- 
sion of Washington, which stood at the north-east angle of 
Franklin Square and Pearl Street, or tread the sod of Fort 
Greene, Brooklyn, that battle-ground of the Martyrs of 
Liberty. 

Taking the Battery as a starting point, the first object of 
historic interest we encounter is the old Kennedy House, 
No. 1 Broadway. During the war of independence it was 
successively the residence of Lord Cornwallis, General 
Clinton, Lord Howe and General Washington. This house 
was erected in 1760 by Hon. Captain Kennedy, who re- 
turned to England prior to the Revolution. It subsequently 
came into the possession of his youngest son, from whom it 
ultimately passed into that of the late Nathaniel Prime. 
Talleyrand passed some time under its roof. 

From this house anxious eyes watched the destruction 
of the statue of George III, in the Bowling Green ; and a 
few years afterwards other eyes saw, from its windows, the 
last soldiers of that king passing for ever from our shores 



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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 19 

Still later, others looked sadly on the funeral of Fulton, who 
died in a house which has been built in what was once the 
garden. 

Here Arnold concerted his treasonable project with 
Andre at the Clinton's — his head-quarters at the time. 
Arnold also occupied more frequently the third house from 
the Battery, in Broadway. Arnold is said to have had a 
sentinel at his door. When his traitorous character had 
become known he used to be saluted in the streets by the 
epithet of " the traitor-general." He was guarded by an 
escort from Sir Henry Clinton. General Gage's head- 
quarters in 1765 was the small low building since known as 
the Atlantic Garden. 

The Bowling Green was originally inclosed, in 1732 
41 with walks therein for the beauty and ornament of said 
street, as well as for the sports and delight of the inhabi- 
tants of the city." 

In 1697 it was resolved " that the lights be hung out in 
the dark time of the moon within this city, and for the 
use of the inhabitants ; and that every 7th house do hang 
a lantern and a candle in it," &c. 

The site of the old Government House is now occupied 
by a range of dwelling-houses at the south side of the inclo- 
sure, called the Bowling Green. It was subsequently used 
as the Custom House (from 1790 to 1815), when it was taken 
down. Earlier recollections even belong to this location ; 
here the Dutch and English forts were erected. At the 
•corner of Wall and William streets, now the Bank of New 
York, once stood the statue of William Pitt. The old Stadt 
Huys stood at Coenties Slip. On the site of the present 
U. S. Treasury was situated the Town Hall, or " Congress 
Hall," which included also the Law Courts and Prison. In 
front of this building were the stocks, a pillory, and a whip- 
ping post. This edifice was subsequently converted into a 
hall of legislature. 

It was in its gallery on Wall street, in April, 1789, that 
General Washington was inaugurated the first President of 
the United States. This important public ceremony 
took place in the open gallery in front of the Senate 
Chamber, in the view . of an immense concourse of 
citizens. There stood Washington, invested with a suit of 
dark silk velvet, of the old cut, steel-bilted small-sword by 



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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 21 

his side, hair in bag and full powdered, in black silk hose, 
and shoes with silver buckles, as he took the oath of office to 
Chancellor Livingston. Dr. Duer thus describes the scene 
of the inauguration : — 

" This auspicious ceremony took place under the portico 
of Federal Hall, upon the balcony in front of the Senate 
Chamber, in the immediate presence of both Houses of Con- 
gress, and in full view of the crowds that thronged the 
adjacent streets. The oath was administered by Chancellor 
Livingston, and when the illustrious chief had kissed the 
book, the Chancellor, with a loud voice, proclaimed, " Long 
live George Washington, President of the United States." 
Never shall I forget the thrilling effect of the thundering 
cheers which broke forth, as from one voice, peal after peal, 
from the assembled multitude. Nor was it the voices alone 
of the people that responded to the announcement; their 
hearts beat in unison with the echoes resounding through 
the distant streets ; and many a tear stole down the rugged 
cheeks of the hardiest of the spectators, as well I noted 
from my station in an upper window of the neighboring 
house of Colonel Hamilton." 

Washington's farewell interview with his officers took 
place at France's Tavern, corner of Pearl and Broad streets. 

New York is noted for its pageants and processions. 
That on the occasion of the last visit of General Lafayette 
presented the most imposing spectacle of its time. 

In ancient times boats were used to convey passengers 
across Pearl street. Canal and Cliff streets derive their 
names from a like circumstance. The Old Dutch records 
:show that the outskirts of the town were divided into 
farms — called " Bouwerys ; " from this fact the Bowery de- 
rived its name. 

The hills were sometimes precipitous, as from Beekman 
;and Peck's hills, and in the neighborhood of Pearl, Beekman 
«,nd Ferry streets, and from the Middle Dutch Church, in 
Nassau street, down to Maiden lane ; and sometimes gradu- 
ally sloping, as on either hills along the line of the water, 
coursing through Maiden lane. 

When Hamilton acted as Secretary of the Treasury, he 
wrote the "Federalist" at a house in Wall street, between 
Broad and William streets, its site being now occupied by 
the Mechanics' Bank. His last residence was the Grange, 



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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 23 

at Bloomingdale. He lived also for some time at Bayard 
House, on the banks of the North River. The location 
where his haplass duel with Burr occurred, near Weehaw- 
ken, is pointed out to visitors ; a stone marks the spot where 
Hamilton fell. 

Leisler and Milbourne, the proto-martyrs ol popular 
liberty in America, met with a sanguinary death, May 16th, 
1691, on the verge of Beekman's swamp, near the spot where 
the Sun Building now stands. 

Where Catharine street now stands was the spot where 
the stamps were burnt, at the dead of night, by citizens in 
the year 1776. 

Benjamin Franklin, while residing' in New York, used as 
an observatory for experimenting on electricity, the steeple 
of the old Dutch Church, now the Post Office, in Nassau 
street. Who will not gaze with interest at this starting 
point of that luminous train which now encircles the globe, 
and by which we communicate in letters of light with our 
antipodes almost with the celerity of thought. 

The old City Hall, in Broadway, the site of which is now 
occupied by a row of brown stone buildings, was for a long 
time the most notable edifice of the kind in the city. Here 
Washington, with his suite, attended the brilliant assemblies 
of his days. 

A still more interesting relic of the past was the old 
Sugar-House Prison, which, till within a very few years, 
stood in Liberty street, adjacent to the Dutch Church, now 
the Post Office. It was founded in 1689, and occupied as a 
sugar refining factory till 1777, when Lord Howe converted 
it into a place of confinement for American prisoners. 

The old Walton House, in Pearl Street, was one of the 
memorabilia of New York city. This celebrated mansion 
was erected, in 1754, by Walton, a wealthy English mer- 
chant. It continued in possession of the family during the 
Revolutionary war, and was the scene of great splendor and 
festivity. 

Washington's city mansion stood at the junction of Main 
and Pearl streets, the northern angle of Franklin Square. 
Here the General was accustomed to hold state levees. 

The old Brewery at the Five Points, recently taken 
down, is deserving of some notice. Its purlieus were those 
of wretchedness and crime ; they have been fitly described 



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as " an exhibition of poverty without a parallel — a scene of 
degradation too appalling to be believed and too shocking 
to be disclosed ; where you find crime without punishment, 
-disgrace without shame, sin without compunction, and death 

without hope. 

During the past few years the attention of the benevo- 
lent has been attracted to this > locality, and a missionary 
station has been erected there, under the direction of Mr. 
Pease. The entire cost of the establishment has been esti- 
mated at over $80,000. 

The old Methodist Church in John street, nearly facing 
Dutch street, is an object of antiquarian interest. In 
William street, about midway between John and Fulton 
streets, stands a range of modern houses, about the centre 
of which is the birth-place of Washington Irving. 

Old Governor Stuyvesant's house stood upon his 
* l Bowerie Farm,"' a little to the south of St Mark's church, 
between the Second an 1 Third Aveaues. A pear tree, im- 
ported from Holland in 1647 by Stuyvesant, and planted in 
his garden, }^et flourishes on the corner of Thirteenth street 
and Third Avenue, though but the roots and a solitary shoot 
remain, — the tree having been almost entirely destroyed 
by a storm in 1863. 

He lived eighteen years after the change in the govern 
inent, and at his death was buried in his vault within the 
chapel. Over his remains was placed a slab (which may 
yet be seen in the eastern wall of St. LVLark's), with the fol- 
lowing inscription: — " In this vault lies buried Petrus Stuy- 
vesant, late Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of 
Amsterdam, in New Netherlands, now called New York, 
and the Dutch West India Islands. Died in August, a. d., 
1682, aged eighty years." 

At the corner of Chirlton and Varick streets stood a 
wooden building, formerly of considerable celebrity, known 
as the " Richmon 1 Hill House." It has hid many distin- 
guished occupants, having been successively the residence 
of General Washingcoi, John Adims and Aaron Burr. It 
has been the scene of great festivities. Biron Steaben, 
Chancellor Livingston, and numerous other notable men of 
their times having met within its walls. 

Aaron Burr once lived at the corner of Cedar and 



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Nassau streets, and, after he held the office of Vice-Presi- 
dent, at the corner of Pine* and Nassau. 

Cobbett kept his seed store at 62 Fulton street. His 
farm was at Hempstead, Long Island. 

Grant Thorburn's celebrated seed store, which was one 
of the notable objects of the city in its time, was in Liberty 
street, between Nassau and Broadway. His store was pre- 
viously used for a quaker meeting-house, the first that that 
society had erected in the city. 

The brick meeting-house, built in 1764, in Beekman 
street, near Nassau street, then standing on open fields, was 
the place where Whitefield preached. 

On the site of the present Metropolitan Hotel once lived 
the diplomatist, Talleyrand, when ambassador to the United 
States. He published a small tract on America, once much 
read ; he it was who affirmed that the greatest sight he had 
ever beheld in this country was Hamilton, with his pile of 
books under his arm, proceeding to the court-room in the 
old City Hall, in order to expound the law. 

James Rivington, from London, opened a book store, in 
1761, near the foot of Wall street, from which his " Royal 
Gazetteer " was published in April, 1773. 

Game's " New York Mercury," in Hanover Square, was 
established in 1752 ; Holt's u New York Journal," in Dock 
(Pearl) street, near Wall, commenced in 1776; and Ander- 
son's "Constitutional Gazette," a very small sheet, was pub- 
lished for a few months in 1775 at Beekman's Slip. 

Gaine kept a book store under the sign of the Bible and 
Crown, at Hanover Square, for forty years. Among the 
early publishers and booksellers may be named Evert Duyc- 
kinck, who lived at the corner of Pearl Street and Old Slip ; 
and Isaac Collins, George A. Hopkins, Samuel Campbell 
and T. & J. Swords. 

William Barlas, of Maiden Lane, was himself an excellent 
scholar. He published classical books. He was the friend 
and correspondent of Newton, Cowper's friend. 

In the year 1607, the memorable year in which forty- 
seven learned men began the English version of the Bible, 
Henry Hudson sailed in search of a north-east passage to 
India. For two seasons he strove in vain to penetrate the_ 
ice barriers, and then turned homeward. His patrons aban 
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and entered the service of the Dutch East India Company r 
whose fleets then agitated the waters of almost every sea. 

On the 3d of September, 1609, the intrepid navigator- 
first entered the Bay of New York. Here commence the 
acknowledged chronicles of European civilization on these 
shores of the newly-discovered continent, over which, till 
then, the wild Indian had held undisputed sway. Accord- 
ing to the Scandinavian records, it is affirmed, the Norsemen 
visited our shores even prior to the discovery of the conti- 
nent by the famed Genoese. 

Among those supposed early navigators was Prince 
Madoc ; and Verrazani, who, in the year 1514, is believed 
to have anchored in these waters and explored the coast of 
what was then known as part of ancient Vinland. We shall 
take a cursory glance at the leading events which have been 
handed down to us, since they will serve to illustrate the 
progressive advancement of the civilized over the savage 
forms of life, of which this memorable island has been the 
theatre. 

Although Hudson has not recorded in his diary his land- 
ing in the harbor of New York, we possess a tradition of the 
event by Heckewelder, the Indian historian. He describes 
the natives as greatly perplexed and terrified when they 
beheld the approach of the strange object — the ship in the 
offing. They deemed it a visit from the Manitou, coming 
in his big canoe, and began to prepare an entertainment for 
his reception. " By-and-by, the chief, in red clothes and a 
glitter of metal, with others, came ashore in a smaller canoe, 
mutual salutations and signs of friendship were exchanged;, 
and after a while strong drink was offered, which made all 
gay and happy. In time, as their mutual acquaintance pro- 
gressed, the white skins told them they would stay with 
them if they allowed them as much land for cultivation as 
the hide of a bullock, spread before them could cover or 
encompass. The request was gratified, and the pale men 
thereupon, beginning at a starting point on the hide, cut it 
up into one long extended narrow strip, or thong, sufficient 
to encompass a large place. Their cunning equally surprised 
and amused the confiding and simple Indians, who willingly 
allowed the success of their artifice, and backed it with a 
cordial welcome." Such was the origin of the site of New 
York, on the place called Manhattan {i. e., Manahachtanienks) 




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.a revelling name, importing "the place where they all got 
drunk!*' and a name then bestoived by the Indians as comme- 
morative of that first great meeting. 

Hudson- afterwards proceeded to explore the North River, 
since called after his name — the Hudson The Half-Moon 
anchored at Yonkers, and the Indians came off in canoes to 
traffic with the strangers. But the river narrowed beyond 
the Highlands, and Hudson, after sailing up as far as the site 
of Albany retraced his way to Manhattan, and at oncesniled 
for Europe. His favorable reports gave rise to an expedition 
of two ships in 1614, under Captain Adrian Block and Hend- 
rick Christiaanse. It was under their auspices that the first 
actual settlement was begun upon the site of the present 
New York, consisting in the first year of four houses and in 
the next year of a redoubt on the site of the Bowling Green 
To this small village they gave the name of New Amster- 
dam. The settlement was of a commercial and military 
character, having for its object the traffic in the fur trade 

At the time Holland projected this scheme of commercial 
settlement she possessed 20,000 vessels and 100,000 mariners 
The City of Amsterdam was at the head of the enterprise. 

From its earliest period. " Nieuw Amsterdam " had a 
checkered history. The English turned towards it a wistful 
eye, and took it from the Dutch in 1664, who succeeded, 
however in recovering it in 1673. Not more than a year 
after it was ceded again to the British, and underwent a 
change of name from New Amsterdam to New York, in 
bonor of James. Duke of York, to whom it was made over 
by Charles the Second. From this period it began to make 
progress, although slowly, in buildings, population and muni- 
cipal arrangements 

The city prior to British rule (that is, in 1656) was laid 
out in streets, some of them crooked enough, and contained 
*'one hundred and twenty houses with extensive garden lots," 
and about one thousand inhabitants. In 1677 another esti- 
mate reports that it comprised three hundred and sixty-eight 
houses while its assessed property amounted to ninety-five 
thousands pounds sterling. 

During the military rule of Governer Colve, who held the 
city for one year under the above-mentioned capture for the 
States of Holland, everything partook of a military character, 
and the laws still in preservation at Albany show the energy 



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Second. — A truthful expression is given to the Teeth, by 
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Third. — The sunken portions of the faee can be restored by 
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and expression oJ the mouth and lace. The Off cial Eeports (with 
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Dentistry, are as follows : 

Report from the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Class G, Group 2 

The Jury on Dentistry at the Champ de Mars report that— 

"The Specimens of < oiiiii.uous gum fete ol Teeth upon platinum plate by J. Allen & Son. 
of New York, are incomparably the most beautiful pieces exhibited." 

Le Ministre Vice-Pi ei-ident de la Ccmminiivn Imperial, 
Paris le ler Jtilliet. 1867. DE FOREADE. 

Report from the Judges on Dentistry, American Inst. N.Y. Oct. 1867 

Case No. 508, Mounted Artificial Teeth, on Platinum Base, by y. Allen 6° Son, 
No. 22 Bond Street, Neva York City. 
\ The best on Exhibition. Their merits are strength, durability, cleanliness and adaptation to 
every conceivable physiognomical requirements of the Teeth, and Color of the Gums. 

HORACE GREELEY. President. 
JOHN W. CHAMBERS, Recording Secretary. 

The following Complimentary Card from Paris coroborates the foregoing Reports. 

Paris, December 26, 1867. 
The undersigned Dentists hereby certify that they examined all the Artificial Dentures 
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specimens of Continuous Gum Work, exhibited by Dr. John Allen & Son, of New York, were 
beyond comparison the finest on exhibition. 

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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 33 

of a rigorous discipline. Then the Dutch Mayor, at the head 
of the city militia, held his daily parades before the City 
Hall (Stadt Huys,) then at ( 'oenties Slip ; and every evening 
at sunset he received from the principal guard of the fort, 
called the hoofd-wagt, the keys of the city, and thereupon 
proceeded with a guard of six, to lock the city gates ; then 
to place a biirger-tvagt, a citizen guard, as night watch, at 
assigned places. The same mayors also went the rounds at 
sunrise to open the gates, and to restore the keys to the 
officers of the fort. 

In 1683 the first constitutional assembly, consisting of a 
council of ten and eighteen representatives, was elected to 
aid in the administration of public affairs. In this year the 
ten original counties were organised. In 1685, on the de- 
mise of Charles II., the Duke of York ascended the throne, 
with the title of James II. This bigoted monarch signalized 
himself by forbidding the establishment of a printing-press 
in the colony. 

Governor Dongan was far better than his sovereign, and 
at length was recalled, in consequence of his remonstrances 
against other arbitrary measures he was instructed to carry 
out with regard to the confederate Indian tribes and the 
Jesuits. Andros was appointed to supercede him, but his 
also was but a short reign, for the populace grew disaffected 
and in a civil commotion, one Jacob Leisler, a Dutch mer- 
chant, was proclaimed leader, and ultimately invested with 
the reins of government. 

He also summoned a convention of deputies from those 
portions of the province over which his influence extended. 
This convention levied taxes and adopted other measures for 
the temporary government of the colony, and, thus, for the 
first time in its existence, was the colony of New York under 
a free government. The strong prejudices, however, which 
had been awakened by Leisler's measures soon produced in 
the minds of his adversaries a rancorous bitterness which 
was perhaps never surpassed in the annals of any political 
controversy. 

This condition of things existed for nearly two years. 
To the horrors of civil commotion were added the miseries 
of hostile invasion by the French in Canada. 

The earliest dawn of intellectual light— for the diffusion 
of popular intelligence had been heretofore wholly neglected, 

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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 35 

was the establishment of a free grammar school in 1702. 
In 1725, the first newspaper made its appearance, and four 
years later, the city received the donation of a Public 
Library of 1642 volumes from England. In 1732, a public 
Classical Academy was founded by law ; and with the 
advance of general intelligence came a higher appreciation 
of popular rights. But New York was destined to be con- 
vulsed by a series of commotions ; and among them the 
memorable one known as the Negro Plot, which resulted in 
a great destruction of life. 

The trade of New York increased. Her ships were already 
seen in many foreign ports ;. neither Boston or Philadelphia 
surpassed her in the extent of her commercial operations. 
Provisions, linseed oil, furs, lumber and iron, were the prin- 
cipal exports. From 1749 to 1750, two hundred and eighty 
six vessels left New York with cargoes principally of flour 
and grain. In 1755, nearly thirteen thousand hogsheads of 
flax seed were shipped abroad. 

The relations of the colonies with the mother country were 
assuming a serious aspect. In 1765, a congress of delegates 
met at New York, and prepared a declaration of their rights 
and grievances. The arrival of the stamped paper, so noto- 
rious in the colonial annals of America, towards the end of 
this year, marked the commencement of a series of explo- 
sions that were not to terminate until the city and colony of 
New York, in common with the other colonies, were forever 
rent from the dominion of Great Britain. The non-importa- 
tion agreements of the merchants of New York, and other 
places, in 1768, were followed by stringent measures on the 
part of the British government. 

On the 28th of June, 1776, the British army and fleet, 
which had been driven from the city and harbor of Boston, 
entered the southern bay of New York. The troops were 
landed on Staten Island. On the 22d of August, the British 
forces crossed the Narrows and encamped near Brooklyn, 
where the American army was stationed. The battle of 
Long Island ensued, in which, owing to unfortunate circum- 
stances, the Americans were entirely defeated. Washington 
with consummate skill, crossed the river the succeeding 
night, without observation ; but the previous disasters, and 
the subsequent landing of the British troops at Kip's Bay, 
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For eight years New York was the head-quarters of the 
British troops, and the prison-house of American captives. 
Public buildings were despoiled, and churches converted into 
hospitals and prisons A fire in 1776 sweeping along both 
sides of Broadway, destroyed one-eighth the buildings of 
New York. 

On the 25th of November, 1783, the forces of Great 
Britain evacuated the city, and Washington and the Gover- 
nor of the State, made a public and triumphal entry. 

This important national event, forming the brighest day 
in the American calender, is annually celebrated with appro- 
priate military pomp and parade 

In ten years after the war of independence, New York 
had doubled its inhabitants. Yet the city had repeatedly 
suffered from the scourge of the yellow fever, from calami- 
tous fires, &c. Notwithstanding all, its commercial enter- 
prise has been rapidly and largely increasing, while its ship- 
ping has gallantly spread over every sea, and won the 
admiration of the world. The first establishment of regular 
lines of packets to Europe originated with New York, and it 
is also claimed for her the honor of the first experiments in 
steam-navigation. 

Improvements hitherto had been principally connected 
with foreign commerce. But an impulse was now to be 
given to inland trade by the adoption of an extensive system 
of canal navigation Several smaller works were cast into 
the shade by the completion of the gigantic Erie Canal, in 
1825. The union of the Atlantic with the Lakes, was an- 
nounced by the firing of canon along the whole line of the 
canal and of the Hudson, and was celebrated at New York 
by a magnificent aquatic procession, which to indicate more 
clearly the navigable communication that had been opened, 
deposited in the ocean a portion of the waters of Lake Erie. 

Municipal history is a narrative of alternate successes 
and reverses. For many years nothing had occurred to mar 
the prosperity of the city. Again misfortune came. In 1832 
the Asiatic cholera appeared, and 4360 persons fell victims to 
the disease. This calamity had scarcely passed, when the 
great fire of 1835 destroyed in one night, more than 600 
buildings, and property to the value of $20,000,000. The 
city had not recovered from the effects of this disaster, when 
the commercial revulsions of 1836 and 1837 shook public and 



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private credit to their centre, and involved many of the 
most wealthy houses of New York in hopeless bankruptcy. 

The completion of the Croton Aqueduct, in 1842, re- 
moved the inconvenience of a deficiency of water, and left an 
imperishable monument to the glory of New York. 

A temporary check to the progress of the city was sus- 
tained by the great fire of 1845, which destroyed property to 
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GENERAL VIEW. 

The City of New York, from its geographical position 
having become the great centre of commercial enterprise, is 
justly regarded as the Metropolitan City of the New World. 
In mercantile importance it bears the same relation to the 
United States that London does to Great Britain. Its past 
history is replete with interest, for it has been the theatre of 
some of the most important events that pertains to our 
country's memorable career : and although it possesses fewer 
historic shrines than are to be found in many cities of the 
Old World, yet its chronicles still live as treasured relics in 
the hearts of its people, and on the page of its national re- 
cords. If we take a retrospective glance, we shall find that 
a little more than two centuries ago, this island of Manna- 
hata — its earliest recorded name — had its birth-day of civili- 
zation in a few rude huts, and a fort situated where the 
Bowling Green now stands ; and in this comparatively brief 
interval in the life time of a nation, it has bounded from the 
infant Dorp or village into a noble city of palaces, with its 
half million of inhabitants. It is now the greatest workshop 
of the Western World — the busy hive of industry, wrth its 
tens of thousands of artizans, mechanics and merchants, send- 
ing out to all sections of its wide-spread domain, the magic 
of machinery for all departments of handicraft, and argosies 
of magnificent vessels for garnering in the wealth of foriegn 
climes. 



51 MAIDEN LANE, 



Manufacturer of Fine Furs, 



t 



Have on hand a large assortment of Ladies' Misses', and 

Gents' Furs, Sleigh Robes, etc., manufactured expressly 

for first-class trade, both lor wholesale and retail. 



if. IE 



IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 



mmm mm mmm 



RIBBONS, VELVETS, REPS, DRESS TRIMMINGS, 

FRENCH FANCY GOODS, &c 

879 BROADWAY 

Bet 18th and 19th Street NEW YORK 

N. B. Special attention given to Making up Articles for Ladies' Evening Wear, 
Overskirts, Chemisettes, Caps, &c. in Laces, Muslin and Tulles, in the Latest Styles. 



CHAS. ROGERS & CO. 

Importers of French, English and German 

if©ir <»©©©_, 

And Manufacturers oi' Human Hair, &c. 

WHOLESALE STORE, 317 CANAL ST. RETAIL STORE 383 6tll AVE 

One Block west of Broadway. Bet. 2Srd and 2ith St. 

CHARLES ROGERS. HENRY ROGERS. 



IB. EISIG, 
2 IS Sixth Avenue, Bet. i A t/>. and i^a streets. New Yorh. 

Trimmings, Laces, Embroideries, Small Wares, k, 

DOflC X3L-XLi.XI?«"3ES3RLlir. 



DRESS MAKERS' MATERIALS, PARASOLS, SWISS CARVED GOODS, 
KNITTING AND ZEPHYR WORSTED. 

Kp 3 A Liberal Discount to Fairs and Schools. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 41 

If we glance prospectively, how we shall venture to limit 
its progressive march in opulence and greatness ? In less 
than half a century hence, it will doubtless double its 
present numerical importance. As illustrations of the enor- 
mous increase in the value of real estate, it may be 
mentioned that a lot on the northwest corner of Chambers 
Street and Broadway, was purchased by a gentleman who 
died in 1858, for $1,000. Its present value is now estimated 
at no less a sum than $150,000. 

The site on which the new Herald Building now stands 
was lately purchased by James Gordon Bennett, Esq., for 
four hundred thousand dollars paid to Barnum for an un- 
expired lease of thirteen years, held at the time his 
American Museum was burned. Also the lot immediately 
adjoining this, with a frontage of less than sixty feet on 
Broadway, was sold at auction a short time since for three 
hundred and ten thousand dollars. ! 

A little more than two centuries since, the entire site of 
this noble city was purchased of the Indians for what was 
equivalent to the nominal sum of twenty-four dollars. Now 
the assessed value of its real estate exceeds five hundred 
millions. If such vast accessions of wealth have characterized 
the liistory of the past, who shall compute the constantly 
augmenting resources of its onward course ? Half a century 
ago, the uses of the mighty agents of steam and the electric 
current were unknown: now the whole surface of our vast 
country is threaded over with a network of railroads, and 
our seas, lakes and rivers are thickly studded with steamers ; 
stately vessels, freighted with the fruits of commerce, all 
tending to this city as the central mart of trade. Half a 
century ago it took weeks to transmit news from New York 
to New Orleans — now our communications are conveyed over 
the length aud breadth of the land almost with the velocity 
of the lightning's flash. Within a like interval the most 
rapid printing-press was slowly worked by hand power. 
Now the winged messengers of intelligence are multiplied 
with the marvellous rapidity of 60,000 copiee an hour While 
the mechanic arts have thus revolutionized the social con- 
dition of the past, a corresponding change has marked its 
history, in the establishment of numerous schools of learning 
diffusing their beneficent influence on the minds and morals 
of the masses. 



M'MES PORTER & DO ANE, 

949 Broadway and 179 Fifth Avenue, 

ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. 



Mrs. W m. A. Moore, 

PARIS MILLINERY, 

Jiff. 12&G ^raudwag, 

Bet. 33d & 34th Streets. NEW YORK. 



MLLE. SNEDDEN, 

Millinery, 

183 Fifth Avenue & 953 Broadway, 
New York. 



M. & E. JEFFERYS, 

Millinery Sf Dress Making 

21 BREVOORT PLACE, 

East Tenth St., near Broadway, NEW YORK. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 43 

Then, again, as respects its costly stores and private resi- 
dences, New York" seems to vie with London and Paris. All 
along Broadway, and its intersecting streets, the eye is 
greeted everywhere by long lines of marble and stone build- 
ings, many of them of great architectural elegance The 
several broad Avenues and Squares in the upper part of the 
city are studded with a succession of splendid mansions — in 
some instances costing from $50,000 to $200,000 each. 
There are, it is estimated, some three hundred churches, 
many of them of costly and magnificent proportions ; while 
its superb hotels— -the boast of the metropolis — are, in some 
instances, capable of accommodating about one thousand 
guests. 

How mighty and far-reaching must its influences become 
in its future progress, it were difficult to compute ; since its 
numerical extent, numbering at present, if we include 
Brooklyn and the adjacents places on the west, over a mil- 
lion of souls, will ere long place it in the scale of cities of the 
world, in the foremost rank. 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Society in New York has many phases — it is cosmopolitan 
and amalgam, composed of all imaginable varieties and 
shades of character. It is a confluence of many streams, 
whose waters are ever turbid and confused in their rushing 
to this great vortex. What incongruous elements are here 
commingled — the rude and the refined, the sordid and the 
self-sacrificing, the religious and the profane, the learned 
and the illiterate, the affluent and the destitute, the thinker 
and the doer, the virtuous and the ignoble, the young and 
the aged, all nations, dialects and sympathies, all habits, 
manners and customs of the civilized globe. 

City life everywhere presents protean aspects. Let us take 
a glance at some ol its more striking features, notwithstand- 
ing the mixed multitudes that are incessantly thronging its 
various avenues. There are yet certain localities that exhibit 



MANUFACTURERS* DEALERS XX 



No. 3 ASTOR PLACE, 

Near Broadway, 



(FROM PARIS) 
IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF 

Himafl Hair Goods 

WHOLESALE & RETAIL. 

Braids, Natural Curls, Cliignons, Wigs, kt f 

ON HAND AtfD TO OEDEB. 

IMPORTER OF JENETIAN BEADS. 
^65 BROADWAY 

Bet. Sth and 91b St. 

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NEW YORK 



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Importers of 






AND 



LACE GOODS, 



Opp. A. T. Stewart & Co. 

ALEX, BECKERS' 

PATENT 

Revolving Stereoscopes 

FOB 50 to 1000 PIOTDEES. 

§60 BROADWAY, 

Btt. Spring & Piinae Sis. NEW YORK 



R. A. OLMSTEAD, 

Manufacturer of and Wholesale* Retail Dealer in all grades at 

Hoop Skirts, Corsets, &c. 

781 BROADWAY, near 10th St., N. 7. 

Opp. A. T. Stewart & CcPt Entrance mt Side Door. 

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL THE NOVELTIES. 

OftlGINATOR OP *HE CBLKBRATBT> 

" PANIER MUSLIN FRONT KOOPJSKIRTS " 

And the only Minufacturer ot a Practical Skirt of thU kind. 

Beware of IMITATIONS of our Goods. 

BERNARD &. B0STET, 

6AME0 LIKENESSES 

CUT OK 

SHELLS k PRECIOUS STONES. 
599 Broadway, New York. 

U).S.BIIP!LI@T©EI<8@, 

Import ers & Manufacture™ of 

jfioo $?plil | {{siMing $|as$efe3, 

Sunlights, Reflectors, Illuminated 
Signs, Emblems, etc. 

611 & 613 BROADWAY, 

Cor. Houston St., NEW YORK. 



Improvements in Lighting and Ventilating Public Botldinj 

and Private ResidVncet, Patented In the United Statu, 

' England, France and Germany, 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 45 

distinct characteristics : life in Wall Street presents an 
epitomized view of its mercantile phase. Here are its banks, 
its money-exchanges, and their great place of rendezvous, 
the Exchange ; beneath the dome of which many mighty 
projects have had their birth. Here have been concocted 
vast schemes of commercial enterprise, and here, too, have 
originated many noble acts of public benefaction. 

Up Nassau Street, to its junction with Chatham Street, 
of mock-auction notoriety, we catch a glimpse of another 
phase of city life. To denizens of New York, society is 
usually known under the generic divisions of Broadway and 
Bowery. Each has its distinct idiosyncracies ; the former 
being regarded as patrician, and the latter as plebeian. 
Looking at, New York longitudinally, we may say that 
Fourteenth Street, at piesent, marks the boundary of the 
great workehop. In the precincts of Madison Square and 
the Filth Avenue, we find monuments of the wealth, taste, 
and splendor of its citizens. 

The southern part of the city — its original site — exhibits 
all kinds of irregularity — the streets are narrow, sinuous and 
uneven in their surface ; but the northern or upper portion 
is laid out in right angles. There are some twelve fine 
avenues, at parallel distances apart of about 800 feet. There 
are about 300 miles of paved streets in the Metropolis, 
extending to Fifty-ninth Street ; exclusive of projected 
streets not yet paved, over 100 streets more. The city has 
been laid out and surveyed to the extent of 12 miles from 
the Battery. 

Perhaps the densest parts of the metropolis, — its very 
heart, from whence issues the vitalizing tide of its commerce 
— is the junction of Broadway and Fulton streets, and its 
vicinity. The collision of interests which all the stir and 
traffic of those crowded streets involve, brings human nature 
into strong relief, and intensifies the lights and shades of 
character. 

It is in these dusty avenues to wealth — these vestibules 
where fraud contends with honor for an entrance into 
the temple, that we read the heart of man better than in 
books. 

The great characteristic of New York is din and excite- 
ment, — everything to be done in a hurry, — all is intense 
anxiety. It is especially noticeable in the great thoroughfare 



917 Broadway, 

Near Twenty-first St. NEW YORK. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

WORSTED EMBROIDERIES, 
Kid Gloves and Dress Gaps. 



Dress Trimmings Made to order, 



M.E.laCOUR'S 

HAIR STORE, 

No. 423 6th Ave. 



WASHBURNE, 

TELE 

Weather Yane Maker, 

No. 4CourtdlandtSt., N. Y. 

Send for Illustrated Catalogue. 



Bat. 25th & 26th Sts, 



NEW YORK. 



IIGuarantee First Quality of Hair r 

And Sell Cheaper than Elsewhere in the City 

Hair Dressing and all Ornamental Hair 

WORK. 



FASHIONABLE 




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7 



No. IS CLINTON PLACE, 



A few doors from Broadway. 



ESTABLISHED 1819. 

THE NEW-YORK 

jjjpiij I f iktlq |$UUiftate&t, 

STATED ISLAJTSTD- 

Officesforthe Reception & Delivery of Goods- 
98 Duane St near Broadway. ~) 
752 B'oaalwo.y near Eighth St. \ [\cw York. 
610 Sixth Ave. near 36«7i St. J 

16G X 168 JPierrepont St. Brooklyn. 

40 JYorth Eighth St. Philadelphia* 

Oyis Cleanse, and retiuish Ladles' and Gentlemen's Qarmenti 
and piece good* oJ all Modi in their usu-il supevlor manner. 



H. JANTZEN, 

Ladies' & Gent's Fashionable 

oot & Sta later, 

284: SIXTH A VE. 

Near 18th Street, NEW YORK 

CORNWELL'S 
M#-)iittw} laist & Moulder 

Every Lady can do her own Dress Fitting to a 
certainty by means of the above Chart- 

Dresses Cut and Baisted at 

No. 16 CLINTON PLACE. 

A. J. GRIPPE* A CO. J* eUJ Y ° rk 

jghotojuaplpc fperhb, 

tjgi (Broadway J7. Y. 

Opp. Metropolitan Hotel. 

CHROMOS & j^RAMES. ^TEr^EOSCOPES 

ANDyiEWS, ^LEUMS, 

Graptioscoues, Megalettioscopes, and 

PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS. 
Qhe ^rade Supplied. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 47 

of Broadway, where the noise and confusion caused by the 
incessant passing and repassing of some 20,000 vehicles a 
day render it a Babel scene of confusion. 

New York has ever been, and justly, renowned for its 
catholic and liberal public benefactions and charities. Among 
her many glories this is most conspicuous. New York may 
be called the asylum for the oppressed and distressed of all 
nations. Abounding in beneficent institutions suited to the 
relief of the various "ills that flesh is heir to," and enriched 
with the most liberal endowments for classical and popular 
instruction, she bears the palm in all that pertains to the 
moral, intellectual, and physical advancement of society. It 
is true we are a mercantile and money-making people, but 
the empire city is an illustration of some of its noblest uses. 

By way of introduction to the city in detail, vve recom- 
mend the visitor first to get a bird's-eye view of it from the 
steeple of Trinity Church. A view from this elevation over 
280 feet in height, affords a good idea of the general extent 
and topography of the city. The tower is accessible to the 
public at any time of the day, excepting the hours devoted 
to divine setvice, morning and afternoon. To facilitate he 
ascent of the church tower there are landing places. At the 
first of these you have a fine view of the interior of this 
cathedral - Hke edifice ; at the next resting-place is the 
belfry, with its solemn chimes Here, too, is a balcony, 
allowing us a first view of the city. Still higher up 
we gain a magnificent panoramic view of all we have 
left below us, — which amply repays our toilsome tour 
of many steps. The variegated scene stretches out in every 
direction, with new beauties, — north and south lies Broad- 
way, with its teeming multitudes and its numberless vehicles ; 
west and east are crowded streets of house-tops, terminating 
only with the waters of the inclosing waters. Looking east- 
ward, we see Wall Street immediately below us, with the 
Treasury Building on the left, and a little further on the 
right the Custom House, the Wall Street Ferry, and 
the East River, which separates New York from Brook- 
lyn, with the New York Bay stretching to the southeast, 
Sandy Hook, the Highlands of Neversink, and the coast of 
Staten Island. To the north-east, the eastern district of 
Brooklyn, formerly known as Williamsburgh, the Navy 
Yard, <fcc, and still further to the north, the rocky channel 



mm 3 B 



Fashionable 



Boot and Shoe Store, 

397 SIXTH AVE., N.Y., 



Bel. 24(/i & 25'/i Sis. 



A larsc assortment of Ladies', Gents' and 
Misses' Boots, Shoes and Gaiters constantly 
on hand. 

All kinds of work made to order. 



Chas. D, Fredricks k Co,, 

Photographers, 

Opp. Metropolitan Hotel. 
NEW OAL.L.ERY 

1134 BROADWAY, 

Cor. 26th Street, N. Y. 



<?3 



Mme. HENRIETTS PHILIPSCN, 

SUCCESSOR. TO 



(FROM PARIS,) 



CORSET MAKER 

Articles de Paris, 

No. 2i 6 Sixth ^ve„ 

Bet. 14th & 15th St. NEW YORK. 



iiss M. C. CI 

First-class Pictures in Every Style 

AT 

MODERATE PRICES. 
Cor. of 20th Street 



Dealer in all kinds of 



GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, 

, all kinds of 

Gaming 
Implements 




98 ELM STfiKET. 



Roulette Wheels of all 
Sizes, Faro and Poker 
Tables, T>2a,Una and Que 
Boxes, Faro Layouts, 
&c.,&c. 



(I.ate at Mme. A. G. Rn>eell,) 

Rotes et lanteanx 

70 UNIVERSITY PLACE, 

Bet. 12th & 18th Sts.. 

NEW YORK. 

HAIR! HAIR! HAIR! 

EaUAL TO HUMAN HAIK. 
Can he Comhed and Brushed. Switches $1, &c. 

Iluman Hair Cheapest in the Market. 

Solid Switches 1 yard long, $3, French Twist 
$4, Curls $1 and upwards. 

Lidies' Own Hair made over, 25 cents. 

Latest Styles always on hand. Highest 
Prices paid for Human Hair, 

352 BOWERY, near Great Jones Street, 

AND 

363 SIXTH AVENUE, bet. 22d t 23i Sts. New York. 
Sole Agent for F. Coudray's Creme Blanche 
and F. Coudray's Hair Tonic. 

MME. WEBB, 

iitii i §m iiiii 

Also Designer of 

^AFEF^ j^ATTERNS, 

For Ladies and Children, 

Bet. 11th & 12th St?. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 49 

called Hurl-gate, so perilous to our Dutch forefathers ; near 
by Randall and Blackwell's Islands, with their City Asylum. 
Transferring our gaze to Broadway, we notice the Equitable 
Life Insurance Building, and Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s 
Building, which stand higher than all others, and on the 
next street the National Metropolitan Bank. Passing 
several fine marble buildings, we notice the Herald and 
Park Bank Buildings, corner of Ann Street, on the east side 
of Broadway, and opposite to them, St. Paul's Church, then 
the Astor House, the New Post Office in the Park in course 
of erection, and the City Hall; the brown stone building on 
the east side being that of the Times Office. Beyond the 
City Hall inclosure is Stewart's marble palace, then the City 
Hospital, surrounded with trees, and opposite it Judge 
Whiting's fine marble building; further north are numerous 
elegant stores including Lord & Taylor's marble edifice, St. 
Nicholas Hotel, the Metropolitan, the Grand Central Hotel, 
and Stewart's Marble Palace, corner of Tenth Street occu- 
pying one entire block, and the largest Dry Goods Esta- 
blishment in the World; and still further on in the 
distance, Grace Church, with its beautiful white spire, 
Union Park, &c. 

Turning to the opposite point of view, the Hudson river, 
with Jersey City, and Hoboken, with its beautiful walks, 
its distant hills and valleys; on this side of the river the 
steamers, ships and docks. This superb river has been 
often compared with the Rhine for its picturesque beauty. 
We can here get but a faint idea of it, for its bold "scenery 
is seen only after journeying some forty miles to the north ; 
we catch merely a glimpse of the Palisades, beginning at 
Weehawken and extending about twenty miles. Veering 
to the south, we see the fortified islets of the lower bay, 
with Staten Island, Richmond, &c, with their numerous 
picturesque cottages, villas, and castellated mansions, and to 
the south-west, the Raritan bay, the Passaic river, leading 
to Newark in the distance. 



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CHANDELIERS AND GAS FIXTURES, 

Fine Goods, Truly Represented at 

LOW PRICES. 



IR/TXIFTTS IMI. BIRTTlsriDia-IEJ, 

Xxaa. porter, 

919 Broadway, Cor. 21st St., N. Y. 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 

Established 1S06. 




Robert A. Ridley 
Wm. A. Fritz. 



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Cor. Chambers & Hudson Sts. 

And 1149 BROADWAY, bet. 26th and 27th Streets, 



Wm. Kennedy. 
Wm. force. 



MADAME GRAY. 

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Loss of Hair and Premature Baldness. 
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SOLE AGENT FOR DEFARGE'S FRENCH COSMETICS. 

31 LAFAYETTE PLACE, NEW YORK. 



51 
CENTRAL PARK. 



ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY 



About the year 1830 the city of New York started 
from the quiet and steady progress that thus far had been 
its characteristic, and, with a suddeness almost startling, 
took the place, which it still holds, and will continue to 
maintain, as the Metropolis of the Western Hemisphere. 

This change came so quickly that in a short time the 
entire elements of the city underwent a complete transform- 
ation. Business grew rapidly, population came pouring in 
from all sides, buildings increased, and business interests be- 
gan that demand which is still unsatisfied, upon the premises 
used for residences. The city was soon deprived of the 
quiet gardens and detached dwellings that had afforded an 
opportunity for pure air, their places being filled by solid 
blocks of houses and stores that increased the evil then plain- 
ly apparent of the want of breathing space, 

As population increased, it became a settled fact, that 
for the majority of the people, especially for those of limited 
means, escape from the city for a little rest or recreation was 
almost an impossibility. There was no place within the 
city limits in which it was pleasant to walk or ride ; no water 
on which it was safe to row, no play ground for children, no 
spot for the weary to rest body or brain in the contempla- 
tion of the beauties of nature. The localities accessible by 
water were too remote, or not of good repute ; and to the 
north of the city, there was only a barren waste, save for 
those whose means and leisure afforded a private equipage 
wherewith to enjoy the drives on Harlem Lane, and the 
Bloomingdale Road. 

These facts, developed in the public mind a longing for 
a place where fresh air, grass, trees, and flowers, might be 
enjoyed with little loss of time, and expenditure of money. 
It was about the year 1848 that the people of New York, 
began to find that something must be done to supply this 
daily growing want. 




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IMPORTER OJF 

Paris, Berlin and London Styles. 

PATTERNS of them furnished and CLOTH MODELS given with each Pattern to 
show exactly how to make and finish the garment cut by the pattern correctly. They 
are perfect guides to work by. tt needs no knowledge of dressmaking to complete any 
garment successfully by them. 

One Dollar a Year. Single Copy 25 Cents. 

JPRICMilTXMI. — Any Two Patterns contained in the "Bazaar" maybe 
selected as, Premium. Subscription and order for Pi emium Patterns, must be sent at the 
same time, also two stamps for return postage. 

It is the only fashion publication in this country that Imports styles and sells 
patterns of them. It is a perfect guide in all matters of fashion. It is from four weeks 
to two months in advance of the sharpest costume importer. 

It isjust such help as every lady needs. Millions of money has been saved by it, 
in giving Styles sooner, and at one hundred times less cost. Nine-tenths of the styles that 
reach this country from abroad are brought here through this Magazine. 

THE AMERICAN NEWS CO. SUPPLY THI TRADE. 

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Be particular to address very plainly. 



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NEW YORK. 



CENTRAL PARK. 53 

During this year,Mr. A. J. Downing first gave public ex- 
pression, through the columns of the "Horticulturist" to 
this universal want of a great public park. In 1850 he made 
a voyage to E ngland for the purpose of observing the pro- 
gress there made in architecture and landscape gardening, 
and finding much in the public parks to excite his admira- 
tion and command attention, he again and more thoroughly 
advocated the idea he had already advanced, of a park for 
New York. 

In 1851, Mr. A. C. Kingsland, then Mayor of the city, 
recommended to the common council that there should be 
prompt and efficient action taken upon the subject. This 
was the key-note from which the press and people took up 
the strain, and from that time it was a foregone conclusion 
that the people of New York must have a public park, ade- 
quate to their wants and worthy of the fame of the metro- 
polis. 

After many vicissitudes of a legislative character, and 
much discussion as to the location, the legislature passed an 
act on the twenty-first of July, 1853, authorising the city to 
take possession of the ground now known as the Central 
Park. 

The first commission, consisting of the Mayor Fernando 
Wood, and the Street Coinmissoner, was appointed May 19, 
1856; they, desiring advice and assistance in the discharge 
of their duties, invited a board of seven gentlemen, of which 
Washington Irving was President, to consult with them 
upon the measures necessary to be taken to adapt the land 
the city had acquired, to the purposes of the Park. 

Under this organization a topographical survey of the 
site was begun, and the outline of a plan of improvements 
proposed, which however, was afterwards set aside. In 
April, 1857, the management of the enterprise, was placed 
by the legislature in the hands of a special commission of 
eleven citizens, under which organization the formation ot 
the park was begun, and continued until 1870, when, under 
the " New Charter," it was superseded by the Department 
of Public Parks, under the Presidency of Mr. Peter B. 
Sweeny. In 1871 this Board was reconstructed so as to 
contain a majority of the original commission. The first 
act of the Central Park Commission of 1857, was to 



C. G-. Guntlier's Sons, 

FUR DEALERS 



-AJNTDD 



FURRIERS, 

502 & 504 Broadway 



GENT'S FURS, FUR ROBES AND SKINS. 
Importers, Manufacturers and Shippers of Saw Furs. 

Only Successors to the 

House Established in 1820, by Christian G. Gunther. 



BENJ N PIKE'S SON, 

OPVICIAN, 

Importer, Manufacturer and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

Mathematical, Optical, 

AND 

PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS, 

Mo. SIS BMASWAY, HEW ¥©RK, 

(Opposite St. Nicholas Hotel.) 

Microscopes, Telescopes, Opera and Field Glasses, Baro- 
meters, Thermometers, and Surveying Instruments. 

Spectacles and Eye Glasses, with Brazilian Pebbles ofthe 
Finest Quality, $5 per pair, 



CENTRAL PARK. 55 

advertise for new plans, and on the twenty-first of April, 
1858, a selection was made from thirty-three that had been 
submitted: the successful one being the united work of Mr, 
Frederick Law Olmsted and Mr. Calvert Vaux. The wis- 
dom of the selection is now apparent in the successful 
fulfilment of the plan selected, which has been carried out 
in all its essential features, save at the upper end of the 
Park, where its extension from 106th to 110th Streets 
rendered an entire modification necessary. 

LOCATION AND AREA. 

The Park occupies the paralellogram included within 
59th Street on the south, 1 10th Street on the north, Fifth 
Avenue on the east, and Eighth Avenue on the west. The 
entire area is eight hundred and forty-three acres, of which 
one hundred and forty -one acres are occupied by the Croton 
Reservoirs, over forty-three acres by the waters of the Parks 
and of the remaining space, one hundred and three acres are 
in drives, bridle-roads, and walks. 

COST. 

The total cost of the land .... $5,028,844.10 
The total expenditure for construction from 

May 1, 1857, to January 1, 1872, . . 7,419,798.40 

Total cost of the Park, January 1, 1872, $12,448,642.50 

As an offset to this expenditure, we must consider the 
increased value of the land contained in the three wards ad- 
joining the Park. The following statement will explain itself. 

Assessed value in 1871 .... $185,801,195. 00 
" " 1856 26,429,565 00 

Increased valuation $159,371,630. 00 

Total increased tax in three wards, $3,469,520. 38 
Less interest on cost of land and 

improvements, 742,924. 41 

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The Park is open daily to the public during the months 
of December, January and February, from seven o'clock in 
the morning until eight o'clock in the evening ; during the 
months of March, April, May, October and November, from 
six o'clock in the morninp- until nine o'clock in the evening ; 
and during the months of June, July, August and September, 
from live o'clock in the morning until elev r en o'clock in the 
evening. 

CARRIAGE SERVICE. 

Under the supervision of the Commissioners, carriages are 
provided in which visitors can make a complete tour of the 
Park. They leave the Merchants' Gate, at Eighth Avenue 
and 59th Street, at short intervals during the day and early 
evening, making the trip within an hour and fifteen minutes. 
Twelve persons can be comfortably accommodated in each 
carriage, and they are not allowed to carry more. The fare 
is twenty-five cents ; no half price. 

REGULATIONS FOR HACKNEY COACHES. 

Extract from Rules issued from the Mayor s Office, January, 1871. 

"The rates of fare to be charged for the use of coaches 
shall be as follows : All around the Park, with the privilege 
of keeping the coach two hours, four dollars ; principal parts 
of the Park, three dollars ; to Casino and Lake, and return, 
two dollars ; when engaged by the hour, two dollars per hour ; 
when for three or more hours, each one dollar' and fifty 
cents per hour. 

" The drivers of coaches hired to drive in the said Park 
are required to wear a badge displayed on the left breast, in 
the shape of a shield, not to exceed two inches in diameter, 
and to have the number of his coach thereon, and to be 
worn continually when waiting for hire." 

POLICE. 

Policemen of the Park force are constantly on duty, and 
are easily distinguished by their neat gray uniform. Acts of 
lawlessness are extremely rare within the Park, and the 



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duties of the police are almost exclusively confined to giving 
information to visitors ; it being a part of their prescribed 
duties to give full and complete replies to all questions re- 
garding the Park. The universal public testimony is, that 
for courtesy and efficiency the Park police cannot be sur- 
passed. 

GATEWAYS AND APPROACHES 

The greatest number of persons and carriages enter the 
Park by the Scholars' Gate, at the corner of Fifth Avenue 
and 59th Street. The improvements now in progress are 
rapidly making this gateway worthy of the notable avenue it 
adorns, and ere long it will be one of the most imposing of 
all the Park entrances. Its surroundings include an open 
plaza on the opposite corner, which greatly heightens the 
effect, by permitting a view of the Park from some distance 
down the avenue. 

Next in importance, measured by the count of persons 
and vehicles entering it; is the Merchants' Gate, at the 
corner of Eighth Avenue and 56th Street, the point where 
Broadway intersects Eighth Avenue, and from which the 
grand boulevard runs in a north-westerly direction. To 
prevent the crowding and confusion that would naturally 
result from the concentration of so many leading thorough- 
fares, a Grand Circle, that contributes greatly to the general 
effect of this entrance, has been laid out' directly opposite 
the gateway. 

After those just described, the Farmers' and Warriors' 
gates on 110th Street — the former at Sixth Avenue and the 
latter at Seventh Avenue — are of the greatest consequence. 
These two avenues are being converted into boulevards, 
and will be planted with double rows of trees, thus com- 
pleting magnificent drives through Park and Boulevard, 
from 59th Street to the Harlem River. 

The improvements now being rapidly pushed forward 
on all the approaches to the Park, with sleepless energy so 
indicative of the Metropolitan spirit, are arranged with 
special reference to its attractions, and will ere long, form 
worthy setting of the city's gem. 

The names of the gateways have been a subject of much 



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CENTRAL PARK. 61 

interest, and those selected happily illustrate the fact, that 
the Central Park is the people's pleasure-ground, common 
to all, regardless of rank or caste. It seems especially 
fitting that Youth and Age, Peace and War, Art and Litera- 
ture, Commerce, Mechanics and Husbandry should be 
represented in these titles, which will eventually be illus- 
trated by the symbolic architecture of the completed 
gateways. 

Below is a list of the names and locations of the several 
entrances : 

Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, The Scholars' Gate. 
Sixth Avenue and 59th Street, The Artists' Gate. 
Seventh Avenue and 59th Street, The Artisans' Gate. 
Eighth Avenue and 59th Street, The Merchants' Gate 
Eighth Avenue and 72 nd Street, The Woman's Gate. 
Eighth Avenue and 79th Street, The Hunters' Gate. 
Eighth Avenue and 85th Street, The Mariners' Gate. 
Eighth Avenue and 96th Street, The Gate of All Saints. 
Eighth Avenue and 100th Street, The Boys' Gate. 
Fifth Avenue and 72d Street, The Children's Gate. 
Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, The Miners' Gate. 
Fifth Avenue and 90th Street, The Engineers' Gate. 
Fifth Avenue and 96th Street, The Woodman's Gate. 
Fifth Avenue and 102d Street, The Girls' Gate. 
Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, The Pioneers' Gate. 
Sixth' Avenue and 110th Street, The Farmers' Gate. * 
Seventh Avenue and 110th Street, The Warriors' Gate. 
Eighth Avenue and 110th Street, The Strangers' Gate. 

THOROUGHFARES. 

The regulations of the Park exclude all vehicles of a. 
business character from the pleasure drives ; and to obviate 
the inconvenience incident to the interruption of travel 
across the city for so great a space, four traverse roads, 
which are carried entirely across the Park by excavations 
below the level of the ground, have been constructed for 
the accommodation of ordinary traffic. So ingeniously have 
these road-ways been located that the visitor is scarcely 
aware of their existence, and, indeed, a remarkable aptness 
has been displayed in the arrangement of all the drives, 




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These Baths were the first of the kind ever constructed in this country, and the 
continuous aud rapidly increasing patronage of the thousands who resort to them, is the 
best evidence of their worldwide popularity. 

During the past year, the increase of visitors to these Baths has obliged the pro- 
prietors to erect an additional Bath Having now Two JBaths we are enabled to 
regulate the temperature as may be desired. 

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CENTRAL PARK. 63 

bridle-paths and walks, each being so independant of the 
other that the entire Park may be traversed either on foot, 
horseback, or in a carriage, without one class interfering 
with another. 

There are nine and one-half miles of drives, varying in 
width from forty-live to sixty feet; there are live and one-half 
miles of bridle paths, twenty-five feet in width ; and twenty- 
seven/ and one-half miles of foot walks, the latter following 
all the drives, but leading as well to many most beautiful 
spots, which are entirely lost to the visitor who only views 
the Park from a carriage, 

THE CROTON RESERVOIRS. 

These Reservoirs, so prominent in the scenery of the 
Park, and so important to the health and comfort of the city, 
were projected, and one of them completed, long before the 
occupation of the site of the Park for its present purpose. 
The Old or Lower Reservoir is a parallelogram in form, one 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six feet long, and eight 
hundred and thirty-five feet wide, covering an area of thirty- 
one acres, and capable of containing one hundred and fifty 
million gallons of water. It is divided into two sections, one 
with a depth of twenty, and the other of thirty feet. Its 
walls of solid masonry are twenty feet wide at the top, and 
gradually increase in thickness toward the base. 

The new Reservoir was constructed simultaneously with 
the Park itself, the old one being insufficient for the needs 
of the increasing population of the city. It lies directly 
north of the latter, and extends almost the entire width of 
the Park, having an irregular form and an area of one hun- 
dred and six acres, with a maximum capacity of one thousand 
millions of gallons. The summits of the walls of both reser- 
voirs afford pleasant promenades and extensive views, 
while the skill of architects and landscape gardeners has 
rendered the presence of these structures a source of satis- 
faction rather than regret. 

GENERAL FEATURES. 

The Park is so naturally divided into two parts by the 
New or Upper Reservoir, that by common consent they are 



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CENTRAL PARK. 65 

designated the Upper and Lower Park ; this division we ac- 
cept, and arrange the description accordingly. 

It is our purpose only to mention the several points of 
interest as they are encountered in passing from the southern 
to the northern end of the Park, and not to follow any special 
route. 

THE LOWER PARK. 

This section of the Park is that lying below the New 
Reservoir, and is the portion upon which the larger amount 
of labor in the adornment and improvement of the grounds 
has been expended. The chief features are the Mall, the 
Terrace, the Lake and the Ramble, all of which, with the 
other leading points of interest, are noticed in the following 
pages. 

THE HUMBOLDT MONUMENT. 

The first object that attracts attention on entering the 
Park from Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, is a bust in 
bronze of Alexander Von Humboldt, surmounting a granite 
pedestal, it is the work ot Professor Blaiser, of Berlin, and 
was presented by the German citizens of New York. The 
unveiling of this monument on the fourteenth of September, 
18t39, the centennial anniversary of Von Humboldt's birth, 
was an occasion of great public interest. 

THE STATUE OF COMMERCE 

Is appropriately placed near the Merchant's Gate, at the 
Eighth Avenue and Fitty-ninth Street entrance. It is the 
gift of Mr. Stephen B. Guion, a native of New York, long 
resident in Liverpool, and is from the hand of Fosquet, a 
French artist of reputation and ability. 

THE POND. 

In the extreme south-eastern angle of the Park, on the 
left of the entrance by the Scholars' Gate, the pond forms a 
pretty and attractive feature in the scenery. It has an ex- 
tent of about live acres, and is partially artificial, being formed 
to a great degree by the natural drainage of the ground. In 
the winter season it is the resort of many skaters, as its 
proximity to the principal entrance makes it more convenient 
of access than the larger Lake by the Terrace. 



Henry C, Letsinger, 

Manufacturer of 

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East liil St., 

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and 42 Spring St., N. Y. 

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RIFLES, PISTOLS, 



AGENTS FOK Colt's Patent Fire Arms 
Company, National Revolvers, Whitney's Re- 
volvers. National Derringers ; Eley's Wads, 
Caps, &c. 



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No, 4 Astor Piace, 

Pfs&R Broadway 

I. SEUNQHELM, 

(nventor of Fashions, 
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New- York. 



CENTRAL PARK. 67 



THE MUSEUM. 



A short distance north-east of the Pond, and near the 
Fifth Avenue boundary, is the old Arsenal, now known as 
" The Museum." It was formerly owned by the State, but 
was purchased by the city in 1 850 for the sum of two hun- 
dred and seventy-live thousand dollars. The first floor is 
mainly devoted to the office's of administration of the Park , 
the centre portion, however, is open to visitors, and contains 
a copy of Houdin's bronze statue of Washington, a statue of 
Columbus, in marble, by Miss Emma Stebbins, and several 
other interesting objects. The second and third floors are 
devoted to a collection of prepared specimens of animals, 
birds, fish, reptiles and shells, that forms the beginning of 
the American Museum of Natural History, for which a build- 
ing has been projected on Manhattan Square. The Meteor- 
ological Observatory finds accommodation in a large upper 
room, where a number of curious instruments record the 
doings of wind and weather. It is the intention of the com- 
missioners to add an Astronomical Observatory, when the 
necessary buildings shall have been provided. 

In and around the Museum are kept the already large 
number of animals that form the nucleus of the collection for 
the Zoological Gardens proposed to be hereafter established. 
Nearly all these animals have been donated to the Park, and 
form not the least of its many attractions. 



THE DAIRY 



Is a picturesque Gothic structure, situated directly north of 
the pond and contiguous to the south transverse road, which 
is so connected that all supplies may be received independ- 
ently of the Park thoroughfares. Here pure milk and similar 
refreshments, more especially suited to the appetites of 
children, are supplied at a moderate cost. 

A short distance south-west from the Dairy is 

THE CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND. 

Especially intended for the use of small children. It has a 
number of swings and a house with constant attendants for 
their accommodation. In the centre, upon an elevated 
plateau is a spacious vinery, beneath which are walks, rustic 



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all our work will be done in tne most careful, neat, skillful and thorough manner. 



E. Holmes : St. James Hotel. Auburn, N.Y.. Jan. 2", 1871. 

Dear Sir, — We have charged the Battery to our Annunciator lor the first time a few days 
since, it having worked now some 5 months. It cost us some 75 cents and about thirty minutes' 
time, and it is now working to a charm. You may refer any one to me you may choose, and I 
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WAITING TO BE MOVED. 

This affords a greater and quicker accommodation to Guests, and saves time and expense in 
making regular trips, as the Car stands still until the 

OPERATOR IS NOTIFIED by this TELEGRAPH that he is wanted at 

a certain place. 

E^" This Electric ELEVATOR ANNUNCIATOR can be seen in operation at the St. Nicholas 
Hotel and Hoffman House, this city. 

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CENTRAL PARK. 69 

seats and tables. Here the little ones may enjoy themselves 
and not be interrupted by the rougher sports of 

THE BOY'S PLAYGROUND, 

Which is still further to the west and occupies a large open 
space also south of transverse road No. 1. Here is a commodi- 
ous house erected for the accommodation of the ball-players, 
who are allowed the use of the ground on Monday, Thursday 
and Saturday afternoons. 

THE CAROUSEL. 

By the path leading from the first the second of the above 
playgrounds, is the Carousel, a circular building containing 
a great number. of hobby horses which move around a large 
circle by means of machinery. Here boys and girls may 
enjoy a mimic horseback ride lor a fee often cents. 

THE MARBLE ARCH, 

Is located immediately west of the southern end of the Mall, 
and is one of the most elegant and costly structures within 
the Park, being the only one in which marble is exclusively 
used. It carries the carriage-drive over the foot-path, which 
enters it at one end on a level, while at the other a double 
stairway, leading to the right and lelt, leads up to the Mall. 
A marble bench on both sides affords a welcome rest to the 
weary pedestrian on a hot summer day, and in a niche op- 
posite the upper end of the arch, beyond the stairway, is a 
drinking fountain. 

THE INDIAN HUNTER. 

By the main drive, just west of the Marble Arch, is a 
spirited group in bronze, representing an Indian hunter 
watching his game, and holding his eager dog in check; thrther 
to the north, at the right of the same drive, half hidden in 
the shrubbery, is another group in bronze, "Eagles destroying 
a Goat." 

THE TREES PLANTED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES, 

During his visit to this country in the autumn of 1860 — an 



BENEDICT BROTHERS, 

No. 691 Broadway, New York. 



We semi Watches by Express, C. 0. P., to all parts of the country, with the privilege to 

examine before paying. 



Price-List of "Benedict's" Time Watches. 

(Gems' Size, in Solid Gold or Coin Silver Cases only.) 

QUALITY OF THE CASE. 
No. Coin Silver. 14 kt. Gold. l>kt. Gold. 

24. 2 oz. Hunting Case. Ovington Benedict Lever Move- 

ment, Extra Jeweled. Chronometer Balance $30 00 $80 00 $90 00 

25. 2 oz. Hunting Case, Samuel W. BENEDICT Lever Move 

ment, Extra Jeweled, Adjusted Chronometer Balance 45 00 ^5 00 L05 00 

26. Hunting Case, 16 size Extra Jeweled, Adjusted Chro- 

nometer Balance 60 00 1 10 00 1 20 00 

21. Same as No. 26, Adjusted 85 00 135 00 145 00 

28. Same as No. 27, Stem Winder 110 00 160 00 110 00 

TJ. Hunting Case, Nickle Movement. Extra Jeweled .. 75 00 125 00 135 00 

30. Same as No. 29, with Chronometer Balance 80 00 130 00 1 10 00 

31. Same as No. 30, Stem Winter 100 00 150 00 L60 00 

32 Same as No. 31, but Adjusted to Heat. Cold, and Posi- 
tions 150 00 200 00 210 00 

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their construction, and we confidently recommend them to those who believe the truest 
economy to be that outlay which secures the Greatest Ultimate Satisfaction. 

FASHIONABLE JEWELRY. 



We have a more varied and extensive stuck of JEWELRY than any other house in 
New York. 

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No. 691 Broadway. 



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OVINGTON BENEDICT, SAMUEL W. BENEDICT, Jr. 

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CENTRAL ['ARK. 71 

English oak and an American Elm — are thriving finely. 
They may be found west of the centre of the Mall, between 
the foot-path and drive. 

THE GREEN. 

Following the drive that crosses the Marble Arch, as it 
leads to the west and changes directions northward, a broad 
lawn of fifteen acres, designated as " The Green," is revealed. 
In the proper season a large flock of South Down sheep pasture 
here, attended by a shepherd, and supply a simple feature 
of rural life, contrasting pleasantly with those other portions 
of the Park where art has done so much to beautify and 
please. 

THE SPA 

Is on the. north side of the Green, and west of the Mall. The 
building is highly decorated in arabesque. Artificial mineral 
waters are dispensed to visitors at five and ten cents per 
glass. 

THE MALL. 

The prominent feature of the Lower Park is the Mall, a 

straight walk which starts from a point just east of the Mar- 
ble Arch, and extends in a northerly direction for a distance 
of twelve hundred and twelve feet, or nearly a quarter of a 
mile. The whole width is two hundred and eight feet ; and 
throughout its entire length there is, on each side, a double 
row of American elms. Comfortable seats are distributed 
at convenient intervals, and drinking fountains at both ends 
afford refreshment for the thirsty. A statue of Shakespeare, 
the gift of a number of citizens of New York, through the 
Shakespeare Dramatic Association, stands at the southeast 
corner of the walk. At the proper season a number of 
miniature carriages, drawn by goats, and attended by coach- 
men in livery, are run upon the Mall for the amusement of 
childen, who may enjoy a ride in mimic state, up and down 
the length of the walk at a charge of fifteen cents. The 
Mall terminates at the northern end in a spacious square 
or plaza, which i.- ornamented with two very pretty foun- 
tains, and gilded bird-cages mounted on pedestals, in the 
summer, when the sun is oppressive, a portion of this space 



72 CENTRAL PARK. 

is covered with an awning and provided with seats where 
visitors may rest, In close proximity to this plaza, and 
west of the north end of the promenade is 

THE MUSIC STAND. 

All elaborate structure, decorated with gilding- and bright 
colors, from Which, on Saturday afternoons, in the summer 
and autumn, an excellent band discourses beautiful music. 

THE VINERY 

Is a delightful bower of rustic work, over which are trained 
wisterias, honeysuckle and rose vines. It is situated just 
east of the upper part of the Mall, convenient to the Music 
Pavilion and ( asino, at a point commanding an excellent 
view of the Terrace. Lake, and Ramble. 

THE CARRIAGE CONCOURSE. 

Is an open square adjoining the Vinery, affording visitors 
in carriages access to the Casino, and is a convenient place 
to pause and enjoy the music of the band without alighting. 

THK CASINO 

It is a neat and tasteful cottage structure designed for a 
ladies' refreshment house, where a well-ordered restaurant is 
maintained, and although a private business like the Re- 
fectory at Mount St. Vincent, is still under the supervision 
and control of the Park Commissioners. It is pleasantly 
located just at the edge of the Carriage Concourse, and over- 
looking all the attractions of the Terrace and vicinity. In 
the summer season refreshments are served from the Casino 
upon tables in the Terrace Arch. 

THE MORSE STATUE. 

Southeast from the Casino, at the point where the car- 
riage road leads from the main drive to the Carriage Con- 
course, is placed the bronze statue of Prof. S. F. B. Morse, 



CENTRAL PARK. 73 

the inventor of the electric telegraph. The figure, which is 
of the heroic .size, was moulded by Byron M. Pickett, and 
cast at the National Fine Art Foundry, by Maurice J.Power. 
It was procured by small subscriptions from the telegraphers 
of the (Jutted States. The granite pedestal, which supports 
it was provided by personal friends of Prof. Morse. 

The statue was unveiled June 10, 1871, with impressive 
ceremonies, in the presence of an immense audience, includ- 
ing the Professor himself. The fact that this work of art 
was a graceful tribute from the grateful people to living 
genius, surrounds it now with unusual and special 
interest. 

• AULD LANG SYNE.'' 

By the foot-path, in the grounds east of the Casino near 
the main drive and north of the Morse Statue, is a group in 
brown stone, by Robert Thompson, illustrating Burn's poem 
of " Auld Lang Syne." Although only a few feet from the 
drive, it is not visible unless approached by the foot-path. 

THE BRON&E STATUE OF THE TIGRESS, 

May be found a short distance west of the Terrace, to the 
right of the drive. It represents a tigress in act of bringing 
food to her cubs, and was presented to the Park by twelve 
gentlemen, residents of New York. It is six feet high, seven 
and a half feet long, and is the production of the celebrated 
Auguste Caine. 

. THE TERRACE. 

Dividing the plaza at the upper end of the Mall from the 
carriage drive that intervenes between it and the Terrace is 
a magnificent screen work of Albert freestone, with two 
openings through which persons can enter the Mall from 
their carriages, or from it cross the drive to a stairway that 
leads to the Terrace below. These stairs are worthy of the 
closest ^examination, for it will be seen on descending, that 
no two of the many panels at the sides are alike, and it is 
their beauty and ingenuity rather than mere variety that 
make them the objects of admiration. The decoration is, 
based upon forms of vegetation symbolic of the Four Seasons, 



74 CENTRAL I'ARK. 

and surpasses the decorative sculpture on any public build- 
ing in America. 

Pursuant to the theory that every visitor, whether walking, 
riding, or driving, may visit the entire Park in his own way 
without interference, and to provide another means of access 
from the Mall to the Terrace, so that pedestrians may not 
embarrass drivers nor expose themselves to danger by cross- 
ing the crowded roadway at this point, a stairway has been 
constructed from the plaza to the end of the Mall, to the 
level of the Terrace below, terminating in an arcade that 
passes under the drive. The floor and ceiling are finished 
in elaborate patterns of encaustic tile, and the stone- work is 
everywhere beautifully carved. The plan for the hall or 
arcade, for the stairways leading to it, as well as for the stair- 
way from the drive to the Terrace, embraces many artistic 
embellishments not yet carried out. 

Having passed over one or the other of the stairways lead- 
ing from the upper level, the visitor reaches the Terrace, a 
broad esplanade which stretches north to the margin of the 
Lake. It is inclosed with a low wall of carved stone which 
is pierced with three openings, one on either side, from which 
foot-paths lead northward, and one on the water-front whence 
visitors may take the boats for a row on the lake. 

In the centre is a fountain with a spacious basin (not yet 
entirely completed), yet beautiful and very attractive. At 
either corner on the water front is a tall mast, from one of 
which floats a standard with the arms of the State, while 
the other bears a similar emblem with the arms of the City. 



THE LAKE. 

From the Terrace the attention is turned naturally toward 
the Lake, frequently mentioned as the Central Lake. This 
sheet of water stretches away from the trout of the Terrace 
to the west and north, in an eccentric outline of bays and 
headlands, which, with the little islands that dot the surface, 
the dense woods of the eastern and northern shore, the elab- 
orate Terrace on the southern side, the boats, swans and 
ducks floating upon the surface, combine to produce a most 
picturesque effect. It is divided into two equal parts by the 
Bow Bridge (so-called from its form), an iron structure which 



CENTRAL PARK. 75 

connects the foot-path on the southernly side with the Ram- 
ble on the opposite shore. West from this bridge is the 
Balcony Bridge which crosses a small arm of the Lake at a 
point near Eighth Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street. The 
swans are not the least interesting feature of the Lake. 
Twelve of them were originally the gift of the city of Ham- 
burg. Nine of these dying, twelve more were presented 
from the same source, to which were added fifty from some 
gentlemen in London. Of the original seventy-two, twenty- 
eight died, and the remainder with their progeny remain 
to do the elegant upon the Lake. The swans, and also the 
white ducks that bear them company, are very tame, and 
come readily at a call. The popularity of the boats upon 
the Lake is evident from the fact that during the past year 
no less than one hundred and forty thousand persons availed 
themselves of the opportunity for this amusement. There 
are two classes of boats, the omnibus, which have fixed rates 
of fare for the round trip, and the call boats that go at the 
pleasure of the passengers. The charges are moderate, and 
the remuneration to the lessee quite small for so extensive 
a business. The boats may be taken at the -Terrace, and 
may be left at one of the six pretty boat-houses that adorn 
the shores of the Lake. 

It is, however, in the winter season that the Lake and 
other waters of the Park furnish attraction to the greatest 
number. 

The care exercised that the ice may be kept in the 
proper order for skating purposes, is fully appreciated by 
the many thousands that throng to the Park when the " ball 
is up, and when under a few simple and reasonable restric- 
tions any one may come and enjoy this exhilarating winter 
sport. The northern end of the western portion of the 
Lake is reserved exclusively for ladies. The Scotch citizens 
of New York here find an opportunity to enjoy the national 
game of curling. This game is growing greatly in popular- 
ity under the encouragement and approval of the Park 
Commissioners. Commodious houses, so constructed as to be 
readily removed at the close of the season, are erected 
during the winter on the Margin of the Lake for the acco- 
modation and refreshment of spectators, skaters, and 
curlers. 



76 CENTRAL PARK. 

THE RAMBLE. 

After the Lake, the Ramble is the natural attraction. It 
covers a piece of ground of about thirty-six acres sloping 
upward from the northern shores of the Lake to the old 
Croton Reservoir, and is bounded on both sides by the great 
drive, from which access may be gained by foot-paths at 
the northwest and northeast corners of the Ramble, although 
the principle avenue of approach is by the Bow Bridge 
across the narrow part of the Lake. The Ramble is a laby- 
rinth of wooded walks abounding in sequestered nooks, rus- 
tic bridges over little brooks, wild vines and flowers, sum- 
mer-houses and seats of rustic make, occasional little patches 
of lawn, all clustering so naturally that the agency of art 
scarcely seems apparent. It is not surprising that the Ram- 
ble has more loving friends than any other portion of the 
Park, when it is considered how many are the attractions it 
offers. The Lake shore is beautiful at every point ; fine 
views every where reveal themselves ; foreign birds as peli- 
cans, storks, cranes, and herons, have here their home ; and 
for the pleasant chat of friends, the quiet enjoyment of a 
book, or simple rest from toil, the Ramble has abundant ac- 
commodation. More pretentious descriptions than this ut- 
terly fail of justice to its beauties. 

THE MONUMENT TO SCHILLER. 

The German poet, is placed in the western part of the Ram- 
ble, near the shore of the northern arm of the Lake. 

THE OAVE. 

At the base of the extreme western slope of the Ramble, 
is the Cave, an interesting spot, partly natural and partly 
artificial. A steep path leads to the foot of a large rock, 
and turning sharp to the left the Cave is entered at a level ; 
the entrance is dark, but a few steps reveal the light, and 
afford an outlook upon the Lake. From the other side, a 
series of rocky steps lead to the top of the rock over the 
Cave. 

THE BELVEDERE 

Is a Norman Gothic structure situated on a large rock that 



CENTRAL PARK. 77 

pierces the wall of the old Reservoir and its southwestern 
angle. It not only provides a pleasant place of rest and 
shelter, but is an excellent post for observation, being the 
highest point in the Park. It can be approached only on 
foot, but should not therefore be omitted by the visitor who 
desires to vitit all the interesting portions of the Park. 

THE TUNNEL 

Has been excavated through the rock almost beneath the 
Belvedere and north of the Ramble, for the accommodation 
of the traffic road that crosses the Park at 7 9th Street It 
is one hundred and forty-six feet long, and seventeen feet 
ten inches high, and is chiefly interesting as illustrating the 
great expenditure of time, labor, and money necessary to 
perfect the attractions of the Park. 

CONSERVATOR 1" LAKE, 

Conservatory Lake is an ornamental piece of water, of 
two acres in extent, lying contiguous to the Fifth Avenue, 
between 73d and 75th Street, and is a feature of a charming 
plan, embracing both conservatory and flower-garden, upon 
which work is now in progress. During much of the time 
that the building is going forward the water is drawn off. 

THE EVERGREEN WALK. 

Near the Fifth Avenue, and south of the entrance by the 
Miners' Gate at 79th Street, a pretty piece of landscape 
gardening, was first laid out in 1862. It increases in 
interest and importance with the growth of the trees, and 
includes circles within circles of walks, inclosed by neatly 
trimmed hedges, the whole encircled by a thicket of 
shrubbery and trees that serves to conceal the plan of the 
walks within. 

A TEMPORARY ENCLOSURE FOR DEER 

Will be found north of the entrance by the Miners' Gate at 
Fifth Avenue and 79th Street. It contains several moose 
and a large number of ordinary deer. 



78 CENTRAL PARK. 

THE PASTURAGE FOR HORNED CATTLE. 

Is directly north of the Deer Paddock, and, in the summer 
season, there may be seen here a number of rare animals, 
anions others, African Buffalo, Asiatic Zebu, with English, 
Irish, and Spanish neat cattle. • 

TEE MAZE 

Is located east of the New Reservoir and south of the 
third transverse road. Within the enclosure are thirty- 
seven hundred feet of gravel walk, and twenty-two hundred 
and fiftv trees, arranged so as to render any attempt to 
reach its central point, or to find a place of exit, somewhat 
amusing and difficult. When the trees are sufficiently 
grown to conceal the paths, the Maze will be a source of 
much amusement, but at present will hardly repay the 
time and the trouble necessary to find it. 

.MAN RATTAN SQUARE. 

On the 8th Avenue, between 67th and 81st streets, 
will be the location oi the American Museum of Natural 
History. 

the knol:,, 

Or, as sometimes called, Summit Rock, is in the extreme 
western portion of the Park, opposite the upper section of 
the old Reservoir. Being of easy ascent, its height is quite 
deceptive ; but it well repays the trouble of a visit, as it 
commands one of the most extensive views to be had in the 
Park. 

THE UPPER PARK. 

All of that portion of the Park lying north of the New 
Reservoir is usually known as the Upper Park, but is con- 
nected with the Lower Park by the drive, bridle-road, and 
foot-path. This section has not received the amount of 
elaboration that has been bestowed upon the Lower Park, 
bnt should not on that account be neglected by the visitor 



CENTRAL PARK. 79 

The special objects of interest are not numerous ; but the 



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rne special omecis 01 interest are nor numerous ; out th 
landscape has a bold, free character, the drives have longe 
sweeps and stretches, the elevation and depressions ar, 
more marked, and the views from the higher points abun- 
dantly reward the time, trouble and strength consumed in 
seeking them. The most prominent features will be found 
noted in detail in the following pages 



MOUNT ST. VINCENT. 



The thoroughfares that lead from the Lower Park pass 
entirely around a large open space north of the New Reser- 
voir, denominated the East and West Meadows, the roadway 
on the east side leading beyond to Mount St. -Vincent. The 
building here located was formerly occupied by the Roman 
Catholic Academy, now on the Hudson, near* Yonkers. it 
Is itow used principally for a restaurant, where, though the 
prices are somewhat exhorbitant, refreshments are provided. 
The former chapel is fitted for the exhibtion of the casts of 
the late Mr Crawford's sculptures, eighty-seven in all 
which were presented to the Park, by his widow, in I860. 
Other apartments iuthis building are fitted up as a museum. 



OLI> FORTIFICATIONS 

Close to the northeast corner of the Park, and forming a 
pretty point from which to overlook the Harlem Meer, are 
the remains of earthworks erected during the war of 1812 
They have been neatly turfed over, but preserved as nearly 
as possible in their original form. 

THE BLOCK-HOUSE. 

Considerably to the west of the earthworks, beyond the 
Lake and near the Warriors' Gate, which opens upon 
Seventh Avenue, is a small block-house, a relic of 1812, 
which was used either as a magazine or fortification. This 
and the earthworks were links in the chain of fortifications 
that extended across the north end of the island, of which 
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THE POOL, LOCH, AND HARLEM MEER. 

These three bodies of water are essentially one, being con- 
nected with and flowing into each other. The waters flow 
from the Pool at 10 1st Street, a short distance from the 
western wall, under the drive into the Loch; thence easterly 
in a small streamlet to the Meer, which extends to the north- 
eastern boundary of the Park at Fifth Avenue and 11 0th 
Street A footpath runs along the margin of the water, and 
over rustic bridges, by foaming little cascades and quiet 
pools, to man)'' very beautiful and sequestered spots. 

THE GREAT HILL. 

This elevation, commonly called "The View, 1 ' about mid- 
way between the Pool and the northern boundary, is a 
central feature in the northwestern portion of the Park. Its 
altitude is not quite so great as the Knoll, but it appears 
much higher on- account of the greater depressions about it. 
There is a carriage concourse at the top, whence there is a 
commanding view, extending from the Hudson to the East 
River and the Sound, including a remarkable variety of 
scenery and interesting incident. 

HOW TO 00 TO THE PARK. 

The public conveyances that lead to the immediate vici- 
nity of the Park, are the street cars, as follows : 

Fourth Avenue Railroad, from the lower end of the City 
Hall Park. 

Third Avenue Railroad, from the lower end of the City 
Hall Park. 

Eighth Avenue Railroad, from both Vesey and Canal 
Streets, and Broadway. 

The cars of above roads all run beyond the upper end 
of the Park, thus affording an opportunity to enter by the 
gates on 5#tfi street, or at either of the upper or side en- 
trances. 

Sixth Avenue Railroad, from both Vesey and Canal 
streets, and Broadway. 

Seventh Avenue Railroad, from both Barclay and Broome. 

Central Park, North and East River Railroad, from South 
Ferry via river front and Tenth Avenue to the Park. 

The cars of these last-named roads do not go beyond 
59th street. 



82 

PARKS AND PUBLIC SQUARES. 



BATTERY . 

Situated at the southernmost terminus of the metropolis. 
Connected with the Battery is Castle Garden- This buil- 
ding has now little architectural beauty to boast of; having 
been for some time used as a depot lor emigrants. 

BOWLING GREEN. 

Close to the Battery, at the entrance to Broadway is the 
small inclosure so called from having been used as such 
prior to the Revolution. Here stood, at the commencement 
of the Revolutionary struggle, the leaden statue of George 
III. which was pulled down and melted into bullets, to be 
used by the Americans. The railing here plainly shows 
the marks made by the removal of the ornamental iron 
globes that were converted into cannon balls. 

CITY HALL PARK 

Is an enclosure of about 10 acres, containing the City Hall, 
Court House, and other public buildings, also the New 
Post Office now in course of erection, 

WASHINGTON SQUARK. 

Was formed by laying out the ground formerly occupied as 
a Potter's Field. The Square is surrounded with splendid 
private houses and on one side is the University Building. 
South Fifth Avenue now bisects this Park. 

UNION SQUARE 

At the upper or northern end of Broadway, extends from 
14th to 17th streets. At the south side is the bronze 
equestrian statue of Washington, and opposite on Broadway 
side, the statue of Abraham Lincoln. 

• GRAMERCY PARK 

Situated a little to the northeast of the above, is a select 
and beautiful inclosure on a smaller scale. This park is 
private property, having been ceded to the owners of the sur- 
rounding lots by S. B. Ruggles, Esq. It forms the area 
between 20th and 21st street, and the 3d and 4th Avenues. 



PARKS AND PUBLIC SQUARES. 83 

STUYVESANT PARK, 

Extends from 15th to 17th streets, and is divided by the 
intersecting passage of the Second Avenue. The Rev. Dr. 
Tyng's Church is upon the west side of this park. The 
ground was presented by the late P. G. Stuyvesant, Esq., to 
the corporation of the Church. 

TOiMKINS SQUARE 

Is one of the largest parks of the city It occupies the area 
formed by Avenues A and B, and 7th and I Oth streets 

MADrSON SQUARE, 

Comprising ten acres, is at the junction of Broadway and 
Fifth Avenue. On the west side stands the monument of 
General Worth. 

RESERVOIR PARK. 

Reservoir Square is located between the Fifth and Sixth 
Avenues, and 40th and 42d streets, and has an extent of 
between nine and ten acres, upon one-half of which is the 
" Distributing Reservoir." The other, or western half, once 
had upon it the "New York Crystal Palace," but since the 
destruction of that building by the fire of 1858, the grounds 
have been kept open as a park. 

MT. MORRIS SQUARH. 

Mt. Morris Square presents the anomalous appearance of 
an abrupt hill, with thickly wooded sides, rising from the 
midst of a plain that has no other hills upon it It " heads 
off'' the Fifth Avenue at 120th street, and extends as tar 
north as 124th street, and its area is nearly twenty acres. 
It is the breathing spot of the pretty village of Harlem, and 
the favorite resort of the citizens. 

Under the able control of the Commissioners of Public 
Parks all of the above-named Parks have lately undergone a 
marked improvement. Many of them, more especially the 
Battery Grounds, were a disgrace to the city, but they are 
now being fast transformed into miniature Paradises. The 
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• 85 
AMUSEMENTS. 

. There are very nearly twenty Theatres in the city of 
New York that nightly throw open their doors to the public. 
We shall notice, in the u Guide," only those establishments 
that are strictly first class, both as to their selection of per- 
formances and manner of representing them, and as to the 
respectability of their audiences. We are compelled to this 
course from the fact that our work is perused almost ex- 
clusively by the better class of strangers sojourning here, and 
who are necessarily unacquainted with the status of our 
theatres, and unwilling to risk the presence of their families 
within the walls of questionable places of amusement. We 
cordially recommend the following named houses to our 
readers, assuring them that they will neither- hear nor see 
aught to make them regret having patronized them : 

GRANT) OPERA HOUSE. 

This magnificent Theatre, probably the finest on this 
continent, is situated on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 
Twenty-third street. It was erected during the years 1867 
and 1868, and was originally intended to b^ devoted to 
operatic performances solely. 

Mr. Augustin Daly, the Napoleon of Managers, has secured 
the lease of this house for a term of years, and opened the 
Theatre, under his sole management, on the "25th of August 
last. 

His object in taking a lease of this large and magnificent 
Opera House, in addition to his own Fifth Avenue Theatre, 
was to enable him to present, on a suitable sc*le of grandeur, 
an immense variety of European and American Spectacle 
Plays, Opera- Boutfes, and Heroic Dramas, which the Grand 
Opera House alone is capable of presenting in fitting style. 
Here will be presented those new, original, and startling 
productions of dramatic genius, which, while appealing to a 
most refined and cultivated taste require facilities for gorge- 
ous scenic display and ample auxiliary accessories. 

Mr. Daly makes the special announcement that every de- 
partment of the Grand Opera House, and the performances 
to be given there, will be under his personal supervision, and 
that it shall be maintained as a place of amusement where 
the most refined may enjoy the very best dramatic perform- 
ances, without any drawback whatever. 



86 AKl'KEMENTS. 

The opening of the Grand Opera House was signalized by 
the production, for the first time on the Western Continent, 
of one of the most magnificent spectacles ever composed — 
the new Fairy Opera Bouffe, entitled, 

LE ROl CAROTTE ! 

Produced last winter in Paris, and the joint work ofM. 
Jaques Offenbach, the eminent composer of " Grande 
Duchess,' 1 "Genevieve de Brabrant/ 1 &c, and M. Victorien 
Sardou, the French Dramatist. This play was purchased 
by Mr. Daly from the authors direct, and all the costumes 
and properties — several thousand in number, and of great 
novelty and richness of design — were manufactured in Paris, 
expressly for the Grand Opera House. The scenery is painted 
from models and measurements furnished by the artists in 
Paris, and the music is given, as specially arranged by M. 
Offenbach, for the original production, with additions and 
alterations made expressly for this country. The cost of the 
entire production exceeds ninety thousand dollars, making 
it the most costly play ever produced in the United States. 

A vast number of alterations and improvements have been 
made in the Grand Opera House, the machinery beneath 
the stage and above it being of most remarkable character 
and gigantic proportions, and constructed after the most 
recent French and English models. By this means some 
very wonderful and almost instantaneous transformations can 
be produced. Every lobby and passage way has been newly 
and expensively carpeted with Royal Wilton velvet, made 
to order for the Grand Opera House. The boxes have been 
newly upholstered and carpeted, the theatre repainted and 
re-gilded. The old opera boxes on the Balcony Circle have 
been replaced by one hundred and seventy parlor arm chairs, 
which form at once the most luxurious and comfortable seats 
yet introduced into a place of public amusement. A ladies' 
toilet room has been elegantly fitted up off the grand vesti- 
bule, where a maid will be always in attendance. 

The lobby of the Grand Opera House, pronounced one of 
the finest examples of modern ornate architecture in the 
world, has now the added beauty of an exhibition of paint- 
ings upon its walls, which represents many of the greatest 
artists of our day in their greatest works. These paintings 
occupy all the available space in the lower lobby, on the 



AMUSEMENTS. 87 

Grand Stairway, arid on the walls of the Balcony above. 
Several of them are specially lighted by reflectors with bril- 
liant effect. These paintings are, without exception, tempor- 
ary loans to the exhibition, by the artist friends of Mr. Daly. 
They will be exchanged from time to time for others, loaned 
in like manner, or purchased, as the case may be. Hence 
there will be always something fresh to see, even to the 
regular habit uee of the place. 

During the day-time, that is from 9 A. M until 3 P. M., 
all respectable visitors will be admitted to the Exhibition, 
and provided with a descriptive catalogue of the works of 
art ; at night this privilege is only to those provided with 
tickets to the performance. 

The chief attraction, however, will be found, as it should 
be, in the performances : and to give these with unparalleled 
attractiveness, Mr. Daly has employed the following extra- 
ordinary company of artists : 

Mrs. John Wood, (the favorite of Comedy and Song) ; 
Miss Rose Hersee, (the Queen of English Prima Donnas) ; 
Miss Bella Golden ; Mr. John Brougham, (the matchless 
Comedian) ; Mr. P^obert Craig, Mr. Stuart Robson Mr. J. 
W. Jennings, Mr. G. F. Ketchum. Mr. J. A. Meade, Mr. J. 
G. Peakes, Mr. Julian Cross, Miss Annie Deland, Miss Ella 
Deitz, Miss Rosa Derham, Miss Jean Bnrnside. Miss Helen 
Strange. 

UNION SQUARE THEATRE. 



Since our last issue this delightful little theatre, has 
has undergone a total change in its management, and in the 
style of entertainment it offers to the public. In June last 
Mr. R. W. Butler, under whose management the house was 
opened, relinquished his position, and it was assumed by 
Mr. A. M. Palmer. Everything which savored of the 
Variety business was at once eschewed, and, an earnest 
effort was made to give a class of performances, which 
would attract to the house the better portion of the theatre 
going public. This effort was so far successful that during 
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the house was nightly crowded, despite the heat, with the 
largest and most fashionable audiences ever gathered in a 
metropolitan theatre during the summer reason. Encouraged 
by such liberal patronage, the proprietor of the theatre, Mr. 
Shook, and the manager, Mr. Palmer, determined to enter 
the lists with Messrs. Wailaek and Daly, and to endeavor to 
establish their house as a first class Comedy Theatre. En- 
gagements were accordingly made with the following well 
known artists who will compose the regular company, for 
the season of 1872- To. 

Miss Agnes Ethel, Mrs. Clara Jennings, Miss Phillis Glover, 
Miss Plessy Mordaunt, Miss Emily Mestayer, Miss Jennie 
Lee, Miss Kittv Blanchard, Miss Rose Larrens, Mr. D. H. 
Harkins, Mr." Mark Smith, Mr. F. F. Mackay, Mr. McKee 
Rankin, Mr. Edward Lamb. Mr. George Parker, Mr. Henry 
Montgomery, Mr. J. P. Burnett and others. 

Mr. D. H. Harkins who has, for several years past, been 
the Stage Director of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and whose 
excellent taste and great industry have contributed so 
much towards the success of that establishment was selected 
as the Stage Manager. The Fall Season began on the 18th 
of September, w T ith a new society and sensational play 
written by Victorien Sardou, expressly for Miss Agnes 
Ethel and entitled " Agnes." The play is magnificently 
mounted, the furniture, decorations, properties, scenery, 
and appointments being entirely new and of the most 
costly description. No stage, it is safe to say, has ever 
presented a more brilliant array of beautiful women mag- 
nificently dressed, than may be seen every night behind 
the foot-lights of this theatre. The cast embraces the 
names of all the leading people in the company, and it is 
useless 10 say that the play is acted almost without a fault. 
The piece has made a great hit and it will probably run far 
into the season. Miss Ethel, of course, fills the title-role, 
and those who have seen her admirable personations of 
Frou-Frou and Fernande, do not need to be assured how 
admirably she does this. Following this play will be a new 
drama written expressly for the company by John Broug- 
ham; a new society play written also expressly for the 
company by Olive Logan, entitled W 'A Business Woman/' 
and other new plays by well known writers. 



90 AMUSEMENTS. 

The orchestral music of the theatre is under thv direction 
of Mr. Tissington, who waves the baton over one of the 
most thoroughly drilled, and most carefully selected 
orchestras in the city. 

Mr. E. H. George, an affable and talented gentleman, is 
the Treasurer. Mr. R. Marston who painted nearly all of 
the celebrated " Black Crook,' 1 and the equally celebrated, 
though much less fortunate, " Lallah Rookh " scenery, is the 
Scenic Artist. Mr. W. Saunders is the machinist. 

During the summer vacation the house has been thorough- 
ly frescoed and painted, new carpets have been laid through- 
oat, new chairs have been put in the orchestra circle, the 
stage has been widened, a new scene room has been built, 
the dressing rooms have been newly and elegantly furnished, 
and the Green-room has been fitted up with great elegance. 

Altogether the Union Square Theatre is one of the 
cosiest and most elegant places of amusement to be found 
in this, or any other city, and those who give it their patron- 
age may confidently expect reasonable and unalloyed 
enjoyment. 

OLYMPIC THEATRE. 

This Theatre, situated on Broadway, between Houston 
and Bleecker streets, was originally entitled " Laura Keene's 
Theatre." Built by John Trimble, and opened under the 
management of Miss Laura Keene, October, 1856. During 
the period of that lady's management many of the present 
theatrical Stars were in the list of the regular company. 
Among the notable productions of Miss Keene's managerial 
career were " Our American Cousin," " The Seven Sisters," 
u The Seven Sons" and "Midsummer Night's Dream " On 
the termination of Miss Keene's management the theatre 
was entirely altered, great improvements made, and opened 
October 8, 1863, under the management of Mrs. .John Wood, 
at which time the Theatre was re-christened " The Olympic." 
This lady retired in 1866, and was succeeded by Mr. Leonard 
Grover, who occupied the house with an Operatic Company 
for one year, when one of the present lessees, Mr. James E. 
Hayes, took the theatre in connection with Mr. G. L. Fox, 
opening in the Fall of 1867. Under this gentleman's able 
management the record of the Theatre has been a brilliant 



AMUSEMENTS. 91 

one '• Midsummer Night's Dream," produced on a scale of 
magnificence almost unparalleled in the annals of the stage, 
had a run of 100 nights. The great triumph was the pro- 
duction of G. L. Fox's pantomime, " Humpty Dumpty," 
having been played 1,101 times — a " run " unparalleled in 
the annals of the stage. 

The auditorium is commodious, with easy egress for the 
largest audiences, and the stage arrangements are among the 
best in the world, enabling the management to produce the 
most gorgeous Spectacles, Ballets, Pantomimes, Dramas, &c. 

The House is tastefully decorated, and the seats are com- 
modious, affording easy view of the stage from all parts of 
the auditorium, of these there are about 2,400. 

Messrs Hayes andColville, the present lessees, inaugurated 
the house this season with a highly sensational drama adapted 
from the French, and entitled " The Red Pocket Book." 
The piece was most artistically placed upon the stage, and 
some novel effects introduced. The Aimee Opera-Company 
will follow, to be succeeded by Star Combination Troups 
from time to time interspersed with dramas of interest, and 
this will be the programme of this Theatre for the seasons 
of '71 and 72. 

The front of the house is presided over by Mr. M. L. Sutton, 
treasurer. This gentleman has been connected with the 
Olympic in the same capacity for the past eleven years, and 
by his uniform gentlemanly attention to his duties has won 
for himself the encomiums of all the habituees of the Olympic. 

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 

'■ The Parlor Home of American Comedy," is situated on 
Twenty-fourth Street, adjoining the Fifth Avenue Hotel, 
constructed of white marble, with a frontage of fifty and 
depth of one hundred and ten feet. The interior, which 
has been lately re-modeled and decorated, presents a re- 
markable elegance of design and beauty of finish, combining 
all that can be desired for attractiveness, comfort and 
security. 

The ceiling of the auditorium is embellished with a 
magnificent picture by Garibaldi, the celebrated fresco artist, 
representing the " Crowning of Comedy," and his artistic 
brush has been applied to the balance of the interior with 



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AMUSEMENTS 93 

tasteful and attractive results. A new stage, with an im- 
proved system of foot-lights, has been constructed, that 
better effect may be given to the representation of the choice 
selection of comedies for which this theatre is so justly 
celebrated. The parquette and stalls are furnished with 
chairs, and the flooring covered with a rich velvet carpet. 
The boxes are elegantly upholstered with satin and velvet 
— the general effect being that of a private drawing-room 
rather than that of a public theatre. The company engaged 
for the present season includes the following well-know 
artists Messrs. Fisher, Clark, Lewis, Davidge, James, 
Lemoyne, Crisp, Ringgold, Rockwell, Fawcett and Whiting; 
and Mrs. Gilbert, Misses Fanny Davenport, Clara Morris, 
Fanny Morant, Linda Dietz, Mary Cary, Kate Claxton and 
Miss Sara Jewet. Miss Caroline Abbott, a well-known 
amateur, is to make her first appearance at this theatre 
during the winter. 

The season opened on the 3d of September, with an 
original American comedy by the author of " Saratoga/' 
that is now meeting with unbounded success. The decora- 
tions and toilets in this piece are from special designs from 
the best Paris artists, and are marvels of elegance. To follow 
this comedy, Mr. Daly has a number of novelties. First, a 
new drama of society life, by Dr. Mosenthal, of Vienna, the 
famous author of "Deborah," which has been purchased 
direct from the author, with special and exclusive privileges 
for this country. This piece, which depicts modern 
fashionable life in Berlin society, is likely to ereate an 
intense sensation. The second surprise will be an original 
comedy of American frontier life and of the New York limit 
ton, by Bret Harte. As this is Bret Harte's first play, it is 
likely to cause a remarkable sensation in literary as well as 
dramatic circles. The third sensation will be a new play to 
be written by Victorien Sardon, the brilliant French drama- 
tist, expressly for the Fifth Avenue Theatre. The price 
which Mr. Daly is to pay for this piece is said to be the very 
extravagant sum of $1,000 per week during the run. With 
all these efforts and attractions for the public entertainment, 
it will be strange indeed if Mr. Daly does not reap a plentiful 
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AMUSEMENTS.. 95 

The Fifth Avenue Theatre will be in the future, as 
formerly, under Mr. Daly's sole management, and will be 
devoted to the production of elegant plays and original 
comedies, like those for which it has been noted during four 
seasons. 

booth's theatre. 

In this superb temple of the dramatic art, the greatest 
living exponents of the drama, are offered an opportunity of 
presenting it, in its highest form, with a correctness of 
detail and magnificence of scenic effect, nowhere to be 
surpassed. 

The lustrous names of Booth, Hackett, Cushman, Jef- 
ferson, Wallack, Owens, with others of equal magnitude 
who have from time to time appeared, demonstrate from 
the liberal support offered them, that there has been no 
perversion of taste, through the immense quantity of sen- 
satiqnal trash foisted upon the public. 

This magnificent structure situated on 23rd Street 
between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, covering an area of 200 
feet in depth and 100 feet in width, was erected at a cost 
of $800,000. Constructed of granite, it consists of four 
stories with a double French roof. The simplicity of the 
edifice is remarkable while at the same time it is one of the 
grandest buildings in the city and perhaps in the country. 
There is one grand entrance on 23d Street, and one on 6th 
Avenue, and at the close of the performances, five other 
means of egress, opening directly on the street are thrown 
open to the audience. 

The seating capacity of the Theatre, including the private 
boxes, will accommodate 1800 persons with ease. The audi- 
torium is lighted by electricity, and recently, in place of the 
former magnificent chandelier, a new one, constructed on an 
entirely new principle by the XI. S. Patent Reflector Co., 
has been introduced. An efficient fire brigade, composed 
of the different employees of the Theatre, thoroughly drilled 
in the working of the numerous fire apparatus throughout 
the building with four watchmen continually patrolling the 
building lend additional security in case of fire, to the easy 
and rapid means of egress afforded the audience. 

During the season of '72-73 unusual attractions are offered. 



96 AMUSEMENTS. 

The psychological play of " The Bells r with Mr. J. W 
Wallack in his great creation of Mathias has afforded this 
admirable artist the opportunity of presenting one of the 
finest pictures of melodramatic acting of the day. Mr. and 
Mrs Dion Boucicault, (Miss Agnes Robertson), appear in 
the great romantic Irish drama of " Arrah na Poguc " which 
will be produced under the immediate supervision of the 
author (Mr. Boucicault) and presented, as it never has been 
before, in strict accordance with the ideas of the Author. 
The beautiful and accomplished artiste Miss Neilson coming 
to us with a high trans-atlantic reputation will also ap- 
pear in an extensive repertoire of characters. Miss Cush- 
man and Mr. Jefferson will renew their former successes, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Florence in their specialties with others, 
will fill up one of the most brilliant seasons witnessed at 
this Theatre. 

The Theatre is under the able management of Mr. Edwin 
Booth, Proprietor, who is ably assisted by Mr. J. Henry 
Magonigle, Business Manager. The treasurer is Mr. J. •A. 
Booth, Stage manage]- Mr. D. W. Waller, and Musical 
Director Mr. Ed. Mollenhaucr. 

Wallace's theatre. 

This justly entitled Home of Comedy was first opened at 
the theatre corner of Broadwaj 7 and Broome Street, where, 
for a decade, it kept the highest rank as a theatre for the 
representation of the best school of dramas and comedies. 
The next movement of the late veteran manager, Mr. James 
W. Wallack, was to build the present theatre, corner of 13th 
Street and Broadway. This place of amusement was opened 
in 1 8 < J 1 , and was, until the death of the elder Wallack, under 
his immediate management. At his decease, the property 
became his son ? s, the present proprietor and manager, Mr. 
Lester Wallack. The building is not very pretentious, but is 
comfortable, and large enough for the purposes intended. 
The seating capacity comprises 408 orchestra chairs, 407 
dress circle secured seats, about 400 parquette seats, and a 
family circle capable of accommodating about 600. The 
entrances are large and eas} 7 for the public, either for ingress 
or egress. 

The names of artists who have appeared under the 
Wallack management are among the brightest in the list of 



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AMUSEMENTS. 101 

the ornaments of the stage. Messrs. Walcot, Blake, Fisher, 
Brougham, Gilbert, Vincent, Sothern, Peters ; Mesdames 
Hoey, Gannon, Vernon, Laura Keene, Henriques, Jennings, 
and others. Some are dead, but many live, and act and 
delight the public at the present day. As a school of acting, 
Wallack's Theatre is one of the best in any country where 
the English language is spoken. 

The season commenced here on the 1st of October, with 
W. S. Gilbert's classical comedy of " Pygmalion and 
Galatea," which has had a run of 300 nights in London, 
and met there with the greatest success. The piece is 
certainly a comedy of the highest type, and is receiving 
here the encomiums of the public and the press. The com- 
pany is unusually strong this season, with such artists as 
Messrs. Sothern, Gilbert, Stoddart, Polk, Thorne and 
Broune ; and Mesdames Ponisi, Anne Deland and Effie 
Germon. Miss Catherine Rogers, the leading artist engaged 
here, comes to us from the London theatres with the highest 
testimonials. She is all that can be wished for in the matter 
of youth, beauty, and talent, and will most certainly make 
a reputation second to none other on the American boards. 

Mr. Theo. Moss still, as ever, continues to be the treasurer; 
in fact, but few changes are ever made in this establish- 
ment, as Mr. Wallack is happy in the selection of his assis- 
tants, and we therefore find Thomas Baker as leader, Isher- 
wood as scenic artist, and Mr. Schonberg, stage director. 

wood's museum. 

This establishment, situated on the corner of Broadway and 
Thirtieth street, is not only a Repository of curiosities from 
all parts of the world, but a charming little Theatre besides. 
It would take many pages of the " Guide " to describe the 
attractions of the Museum portion of the house, we can only 
advise our readers to spend a day there and they will be 
amply repaid for their expenditure of time and money. 
Here can be seen a superb collection of cosmoramic views, 
scenes from all parts of the globe, antique statuary and 
paintings, specimens of rare birds, animals, &c, &c, Japan- 
nese and Chinese curiosities. Dante's celebrated picture of 
the " Infernal Regions " has been reproduced here by Prof. 
Nevill, as a life-size living tableau, striking the beholder with 
amazement. Here " The Happy Family " may be seen liv- 



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AMUSEMENTS. 103 

ing together in a charming contentment, happily illustrative 
of the Golden Age. An exhibition hall contains a fine col- 
lection of wax statuary, illustrative of some startling foreign 
and domestic scenes, and which are the subjects of general 
public remark. 

The Theatre was opened for the season of '72 and '73 on 
the evening of the 9th of September with an entirely new 
Burlesque, by James Barnes written expressly for the 
Museum Theatre, and adapted to the powers of the first class 
troupe of actors and actresses connected with this house, en- 
titled Chow-Chow. This piece is having a successful 
run, and will be followed bj r novelties now in preparation. 
The troupe has been reconstructed and materially strengthen- 
ed, and is the most perfect organization in this country. 
It contains the well-known artists — Miss Lisa Weber, Pauline 
Markham, Belle Howitt, Emma Grattan, Millie Cook and 
the Wood Sisters ; together with Mr. Geo. Atkins, acknow- 
ledged to be one of the best burlesque actors in the 
country, Messrs. Louis Mestayer, Sheldon, Stuart, Charles, 
&c, &c. 

The multiplicity of attraction presented by the manage- 
ment of Woods' Museum is something unprecedented, for in 
addition to the above superior Burlesque Troupe and their 
especial novelties, a Dramatic Company of rare ability is 
constantly under engagement and able at all times to produce 
any and all dramas, whether new or standard, in connection 
with the best Stars of the present day. 

There are two performances given here daily at 2 o'clock 
and 8 o'clock, this being the only establishment in town 
which is constantly open day and evening, summer and 
winter. Mr. Geo. Wood is the proprietor and manager, and 
Mr. W. A. Lilliendahl business manager. 

THE LYCEUM THEATRE 

Is admirably situated on Fourteenth Street, near Sixth 
Avenue, on the site formerly occupied by the French 
Theatre, the latter building having been entirely demolished 
to give place to the present elegant edifice. At the present 
writing, the house bids fair to be completed early in the 
winter ; in fact, the management expect to open about the 
25th of November, and, judging from present appearances, Mr. 



104 AMUSEMENTS. 

Fechter will certainly redeem his promise to erect a theatre 
in which nothing shall be wanting to please either the eye 
or the dramatic taste of his patrons. Very many novelties 
are to be introduced into the house, both before and behind 
the curtain. The auditorium will present the appearance 
of an elegant conservatory, richly decorated, and furnished 
with luxurious divans and sofas of novel design, these latter 
being arranged for one, two, or three persons, with bracket 
attachments for bouquets, fans, &c, and so placed as to 
afford ample room for the feet and legs of the audience. 
This arrangement of seats is uniform all over the house. 
A large saloon, with parlors for ladies and gentlemen, is 
attached to the theatre. Five doors of the largest size 
provide entrance and exit, thus affording easy egress in case 
of need. The ventilation will be as near perfection as can 
be attained by using all the best known methods. The 
same may be said of the heating and lighting departments. 
The stage will present many improvements in mechanism, 
the joint invention of Messrs. Schonberg and Fechter; these 
will mainly consist in the entire absence of grooves, foot- 
lights, sky borders, and other obstructions to effects. All 
out-door scenes will show true horizons and every effect 
visible in nature, as " sunsets," " sunrise," " storm," &c.,. 
will be faithfully reproduced with perfect illusion. These 
results will be brought about by building up the pictures in 
a circular form, without the aid of wings or flys to represent 
distance and sky. The class of performances will be drama,, 
melodrama, ballet and pantomime, but all of the very 
highest order of merit. The company have not yet been 
fully determined upon, but we are assured that it will be 
the very best that can be procured, and we are confident 
that Mr. Fechter will surround himself with artists 
worthy of his own well-known ability. We predict for 
this gentleman a successful season, and that liberal patronage 
that the citizens of the Empire City are ever ready to bestow 
upon deserving genius and energetic management. 

Bryant's minstrels. 

Mr. Bryant has opened his Opera House on Twenty-third 
street near Sixth Avenue, for his sixteenth season. He re- 
appears with all his own favorite artists and with the well- 



AMUSEMENTS. 105 

known Kelley and Leon in addition, as members of his com- 
pany. It is Mr. Bryant's purpose this season to make his 
Opera House one of the most attractive of the up-town re- 
sorts, which shall, as heretofore, claim the attention of the 
refined and intelligent among amusement-seekers. The 
company is composed of the following named well-known 
artists : Dan Bryant, Nelse Seymour, Edwin Kelley, the 
Only Leon, Wm. Dwyer, Dave Reed, and Charles Templeton. 
Strangers in the city are recommended to this house. The 
performances are always amusing, entertaining and chaste. 

SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 

These ~ veteran delineators of "Unbleached Americans 7 
have commenced their seventeenth season in this city, at 
the St. James Theatre, Twenty-sixth street near Broadway, 
which establishment they have secured for a term of years. 
The house is cosy and tastefully decorated, and the seating 
accommodations are all that can be desired for comfort. The 
following named gentlemen compose the company : Mr. 
Beaumont Read, Mr. C. S. Fredericks, Mr. JoeNorrie, John- 
son & Powers (the best song and dance artists in the world) ; 
Messrs. W Mullaly, G. Withers, H. Smidt, T. 0. Mullaly, W. 
Blakeney, H. Percy, J. Juch, F. Trigg, Andy Leavette, T. 
W. Davey, D. S. Wambold, Billy Enrmett, Billy Birch, 
Charley Backus. 

NEW YORK CIRCUS. 

This building is of corrugated iron in a circular form, and 
occupies a lot on Fourteenth street, between Third and Fourth 
Avenues, opposite Irving Place, one hundred and twenty- 
five feet front, and one hundred and six feet deep. It has 
a seating capacity of 3,450. The entertainments consist of 
first class equestrian gymnastic and acrobatic performances, 
also pantomime and ballet. The stud of horses and ponies is 
said to be the finest in the world. 

This house is closed during the summer season, the com- 
pany being then engaged in traveling throughout the rural 
districts ; but early in October the Winter season is inaugu- 
rated. This establishment has lately passed into the hands 
of the veteran showman, P. T. Barnum, who will open the 
Fall and Winter season during the month of November with 
a new and effective troupe of artists. 



106 AMUSEMENTS. 



ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 



This Temple to the lyric muse is situated on the corner 
of Fourteenth street and Irving Place; has a frontage of 204 
feet on Fourteenth street and 122 feet on Irving Place. Was 
incorporated in 1862, and inaugurated by Mario and Grisi 
under the management of James Hackett, in October, 1864. 
It was burned by some undiscovered accident in May, 1866, 
and immediately rebuilt with improvements, and inaugurated 
by the Fire Department Ball, 28th February, 1867. It has 
no gallery, has 100 private boxes, spacious lobbies, passages 
and staircases; seats 2,200 with large commodious opera 
chairs of the Koechling pattern. 

Mr. PL G. Stebbins is the president, and Mr. D. Kingsland 
is the secretary. 

NIBLO'S GARDEN 

Is now being rebuilt by Mr. A. T. Stewart on the site of the 
old house destroyed by fire last winter. The old house was 
built in 1850, and was one of the largest theatres in the city. 
It was first opened under the management of Wm. Niblo. 
Jas. Nixon was the lessee for one year, in 1860 ; under the 
control of Palmer and Ulman, 1861 ; opened under the 
management of Messrs. Wheatley, Davenport and Jarrett, 
January 18th, 1862. June 1st, 1862, passed under the sole 
management of Wm. Wheatley, from him the present lease 
passed to Messrs. Jarrett and Palmer, the present managers 
who, we understand, have secured a renewed lease of the 
new building, and propose devoting the house to the repre- 
sentation of spectacles, burlesques and ballet. At this time 
of writing, however, nothing definite is known about the 
matter. 



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PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 



THE NEVA' COURT HOUSE. 

This immense building, now in process of construction, is 
situated in the rear of the City Hall, on Chambers street, 
and will be, when completed, one of the most substantial 
edifices in the United States. Its equal is certainly not to 
be found in the city, and the immensity of the structure can 
only be seen and felt by a comparison with buildings of great 
capacity, towering as it does above the five-story buildings 
in the vicinity, completely overlooking the present City Hall, 
and commanding as fine a view of the surroundings of New 
York as can possibly be had. It was commenced in Septem- 
ber, 1861, under the direction and superintendence of Mr. 
Cummings H. Tucker, who was appointed by the Board of 
Supervisors for this purpose. The architect is Mr. John 
Kellum, the same who also has charge of A. T. Stewart's 
immense building, corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty fourth 
street, and who also built the Stock Exchange, and several 
other large buildings in this city. The entire length of the 
building is 250 feet, and the breadth 150 ; rectangular in 
form, and three stories in height above ground. The plans 
and designs called for materials (particularly with reference 
to iron and marble) of great magnitude, and the expense 
attendant upon their selection, preparation, and adaptation, 
together with all the embellishments, is necessarily very 
heavy. The original cost was estimated atabout $8,000,000, 
but the increased expense of material and labor since that 
time will bring the entire expenses over $13,000,000, when 
•completed, at the lowest estimate. The cost of the City 
Hall, which was nine years in building, was about $700,000. 
The height of the new Court House, from the base course to 
top of pediment, is 97 feet. The dome will be 128 feet high 
above the pediment, making a total height of the building, 
from the b^se course to the top of dome, 225 feet. From 
the sidewalk to the pediment the building is 82 feet 
high, and from sidewalk to top of the dome 210 feet. 

The new Court House is an entirely fire-proof building — 
the ceilings from base to attic all being formed of brick 
arches. And when we consider that in this will be deposited 
all the records, wills, leases, and documents of the offices of 



108 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

the Register, County Clerk, and Surrogate, the citizens of 
New York, who are all more or less interested in the preser- 
vation of these, will feel a security as to their property and 
interests not hitherto felt. 

It affords accommodations for County Clerk, Register, 
Surrogate, Sheriff, and Tax Departments and Tax Offices — 
departments in which it is of the utmost importance that 
business should be transacted daily and with dispatch. 

The Court-rooms are large, airy, unobstructed by columns, 
made with reference to the principles of acoustics, and finish- 
ed in an agreeable and pleasing manner, so that they form 
an attractive feature to the spectator, and all to whom may 
be entrusted the administration of justice ; differing in this 
respect from most of the large rooms in the Capitol at Wash- 
ington, the City Hall, and other public buildings, in which, 
as a general thing, the shadows and sombre hues are so 
strong as to intercept that light and heat so necessary to lend 
a cheerful aspect to any auditory. 

THE CITY HALL. 

This is an imposing edifice, and, for the most part, built 
of marble. It was constructed between the years 1803-10. 
At the celebration of the Atlantic Telegraph, the clock- 
tower and other upper portions of the building were de- 
stroyed by fire, but have since been rebuilt. 

In the building are the several offices of the Mayor, Com- 
mon Council and Aldermen, the Governor's room, City 
Library, and other business offices. 

The United States District Court is located in Chambers 
Street, at the rear of the City Hall. The several other 
Courts are held in the brown stone building, situated at the 
north-east angle of the City Hall. 

THE HALL OF RECORDS, 

Located to the east of the City Hall, was originally used for 
a prison, and subsequently as a cholera hospital. It is of 
coarse stone stuccoed over ; the entrances north and south 
are ornamented with Ionic columns. The building is now 
used as the Depository for Deeds, Records, &c. 



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THE HALLS OF JUSTICE. 

This is the city prison, or as it is more familiarly styled, 
from its gloomy aspect, " The Tombs." It is a spacious 
building, or rather series of buildings, occupying the square 
bounded by Centre street on the east, Elm street on the 
west, and Franklin and Leonard streets on the north and 
south. It is a massive structure in the Egyptian style, the 
main entrance being by an ascent of steps beneath a large 
portico supported by massive Egyptian columns. The Court 
of Sessions, Police Court, and others are held in this build- 
ing. It also comprises the prison, which has about 150 cells. 
The house of detention measures 142 feet by 45. The place 
of execution of criminals is the interior court yard. The 
edifice was completed in 1838. On application to the keeper, 
visitors may obtain admission to the building. 

DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS 

Have erected on the corner of Eleventh street and Third 
Avenue a neat and substantial building, which they occupy. 
This very important department was created by an act of 
the State Legislature, and is the most benevolent institution 
in the city. Almost hourly through the winter the rooms 
are crowded with applicants for relief, whose wants are 
amply and promptly attended to. A large and very effi- 
cient corps of assistants are employed to carry out the 
objects for which this institution was created. This depart- 
ment is under the management of a Board of Five Commis- 
sioners, who have entire control over all the public institu- 
tions of the city, including Randall's, Ward's and Blackwell's 
Islands. And persons desirous of visiting any or all of these 
places, can obtain permits at this office. 

THE CITY ARMORY. 

The old City Armory or Arsenal, is situated at the junc- 
tion of Elm and White streets, extending 84 feet on Elm 
and 13 1 feet on White street. The edifice is so constructed, 
that, in case of any popular tumult, it could be defended by 
a garrison of fifty men. The ground floor is used as a gun- 
room, and the upper room for drilling. The style of the 
architecture is a kind of gothic, with castellated towers. 



110 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

This arsenal contains a portion of the artillery of the first 
division of the New York State Militia. It is intended 
that a large flagstaff shall be erected on the centre of the 
roof of this building, in order that telegraphic communica- 
tions may be conveyed by wires from it to the new arsenal 
up town, which is situated on the corner of Thirty-fifth street 
and Seventh Avenue. 

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THE UNITED STATES TREASURY AND ASSAY OFFICE, 

On the corner of Wall and Nassau streets is a splendid build- 
ing, constucted in the Doric order of Grecian architecture. 
It is built in the most substantial manner of white marble, 
something after the model of the Parthenon at Athens ; as a 
piece of masonry, it is equal to any structure extant, and to 
judge from appearances, likely to become as enduring as the 
pyramids ; it occupies the site of the old Federal Hall. 
The building is 200 feet long, 80 feet high ; at the southern 
end, on Wall street, is a portico of eight purely Grecian 
columns, 5 feet 8 inches in diameter, and 34 feet high ; and 
on the northern end, on Pine street, is a corresponding portico 
of similar columns. The front portico is ascended by eighteen 
marble steps, and the rear portico,- on Pine street, by only 
three or four marble steps. It is two lofty stories high above 
the basement story. The great business hall is a splendid 
room, 60 feet in diameter. The cost of the building, includ- 
ing the ground, was $1,195,000. 

THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, 

Occupying the building which was formerly the Merchants 1 
Exchange, is located between Wall street, Exchange Place, 
William and Hanover streets. The material employed in its 
construction is blue Quincy granite, and it is characterised 
by fine proportions and massive substantial appearance, Its 
dimensions are on such a scale as to produce a fine archi- 
tectural effect, being in length 200 feet ; in width, from 144 
to 171 ; while it has an elevation of 77 feet at the cornice, 
and 124 at the top of the dome. The portico of eighteen 
Ionic columns, which graces its front, imparts to it an im- 
posing effect. The interior of the building fully sustains the 
impression ; for, besides the numerous apartments set apart 
to various uses, it contains a rotunda in the centre, sur- 

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mounted by a lofty dome, which is supported in part by 
eight Corinthian columns of Italian marble. This rotunda 
is capable of containing 3,000 persons. Its entire cost, in- 
cluding the ground, was over $1,800,000. The architect 
was Isaiah Rogers ; and it was built on the site of the old 
Exchange, destroyed by the fire of 1835. The original stock- 
holders lost every penny of their investment, it having been 
sold to other hands to defray the mortgage held by the 
Barings of London. 

THE POST OFFICE, 

In Nassau street, between Cedar and Liberty streets, was 
formerly the Middle Dutch Church. At a time — namely, 
during the war of the Revolution — when most of the 
churches were turned to military use by the British, this 
one sustained the greatest injuries ; which more or less, 
however, fell upon all. In IT 'JO it received such repairs as 
fitted it again for public worship ; but it was afterwards 
secured by the government and devoted to its present use — 
that of a post-office. Its internal arrangements are exten- 
sive, and well adapted to the objects of its present use. 
The postmaster's room is so situated as to command a view 
of all that is going on in the building. It was in the old 
wooden steeple of this building that Franklin practised his 
experiments in electricity. 

The New Post Office, now in process of construction on a 
site situated at the southern end of the City Hall Park, 
promises to be the finest structure of the kind in the United 
States. 

It will be constructed of granite, marble and iron, at a 
cost of $3,500,000, which amount has been appropriated by 
Congress. 

The style of architecture is the pure French Renaissance. 
It will be three stories high suimounted by a Mansard roof, 
marked by a centre pavilion four stories high. The pavilion 
in front will be 160 feet high, and the building facing the 
City Hall will be 320 feet in length. The first story will be 
22 feet high, composed of arched openings, supported upon 
square piers ; the second will be"l8 feet high, and the third 
1 6. The style of the building is that of the Tuileries and the 
Hotel de Ville. The building will display the following, 
statues : America, Commerce, Industry, Washington, Frank- 



112 , PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

lin, Justice, History, Peace, Strength, Truth, Genius of the 
Arts, Virtue, Honor, Literature, Mechanics, Genius of Science, 
Agriculture, and Navigation. The public corridor will be 
25 feet wide, and 600 feet in length, entered from Broadway 
and Park Row. The building can be completed, it is claimed, 
within two years. Clocks are to be placed at various points 
around the building for the accommodation of the public. 

POST OFFICE REGULATIONS. 

The Money Order department entrance is on Nassau street 
corner of Liberty. Office hours from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. 

There are Eight deliveries each day by carriers. 

Collections are made from each and every lamp-post box 
(585 in number) nine times a day. 

On Sundays, but one collection will be made, at 3.15 P. M. 

U. S. Mail Stations. 

Open from 6.30 A. M. to 9. 30 P. M. 

A, 100 Spring. H, 978 Third Avenue. 

B, 382 Grand. J, West 84th, cor. Boulevard. 

C, 627 Hudson. K, 171 East 86th. 

D, Bible h. L, 2277 Third Ave. 

E, 465 Eighth Ave. M, Carmansville. 

F, 342 Third Ave. N, Tubby Hook. 

G, 735 Seventh Ave. 

RATES OF POSTAGE. 

No letter will be sent from this office, to places within 
the United States unless the postage is prepaid by stamps. 

Stamps and stamped envelopes can be procured at the 
office of sale in the Post-office building, entrance at the north 
end of Nassau street front, open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. ; at 
the window on Nassau street, at all the Stations, and also of 
authorized agents in different parts of the City. 

The Inland Postage (which must be prepaid) upon single 
letters is 3 cents ; double letters, twice, and treble letters, 
treble the rates. 

Every letter or parcel not exceeding half an ounce in 
weight is deemed a single letter, and every additional 
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single postage, prepaid by stamps. City letters must be 
prepaid by stamps at the rate of two cents for each half 
ounce, or less, and two cents for each additional half 
ounce, whether delivered from the office or by the carriers. 
Advertised Letters are charged with one cent, in addition 
to the regular postage. 



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MARKETS. 

It is with regret that we chronicle the fact that the Public 
Markets of this metropolis are a disgrace to the community : 
The two principal ones (Washington and Fulton) are re- 
markable principally for slovenliness and general tumble 
down appearance. The wonder is that so much business 
can be done in such hovels. It has been left to private 
enterprise to construct a market for the citizens of New 
York worthy of the name. The building which we notice 
on the succeeding pages will be completed early in November. 



114 

PUBLIC WORKS. 

THE CROTON AQUEDUCT, 

By which the city is supplied with pure water, is one of the 
most gigantic enterprises of the kind undertaken in any 
country. The distance which the water travels through 
this artificial channel, exclusive of the grand reservoir, is 
about forty miles. The Dam crosses the Croton River six 
miles from its mouth, and the whole distance from this dam, 
thirty-two miles, is one unbroken under-ground canal, 
formed of stone and brick. The great receiving reservoir 
is on York Hill, five miles from the City Hall ; it can re- 
ceive a depth of water to the extent of twenty feet, and is 
capable of containing 150,000,000 gallons. Two miles 
further on is the distributing reservoir, at Murray Hill. 
This reservoir is of solid masonry, built in the Egyptian 
style of architecture, with massive buttresses, hollow granite 
walls, &c. On the top of the wall is an inclosed promenade. 
It is three miles from the City Hall. The cost of this im- 
mense undertaking was over thirteen millions of dollars. 

During the past year the works have been thoroughly 
examined and repaired from the Croton Dam to the reciving 
reservoir at an immense cost. In connection with this a 
topographical survey of the valley of the Croton was 
effected, by which it appears that the ridge defining the 
waters above the point at which the Aqueduct begins, 
measures 101 miles. Within this circuit there are 31 lakes 
and ponds ; and the aggregate area of waters, including the 
tributaries, is 352 square miles ; which is equal to 96,034 
gallons per square mile during the driest season. Yet large 
as this supply may appear, the resources of the Brooklyn 
water works are nearly six times as great. 

Among the improvements now contemplated in these 
colossal works is the erection of still another immense 
reservoir in the north-eastern part of the city, provided with 
a high column (pumped up by steam) in order to increase 
the pressure in the pipes of the division where the present 
head of water is ineffective, owing to the altitude of the 
ground. 



PUBLIC WORKS. 115 

The immense New Reservoir, cost $2,250,000 when 
completed, and is located at York Hill, in the Central Park, 
between Eighty-fifth and Ninety-seventh streets. The gate- 
houses, which are to cost $193,513, are to be built in the 
outer reservoir bank, and at the ends of the central bank of 
the new reservoir, the aqueduct will extend therefrom to 
about 50 feet east of the existing aqueduct, near the Ninth 
Avenue. The south gate-house will be located near Eighty- 
sixth street ; 83 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 42 feet above 
the pavement of the bays, which are to be divided. The 
masonry will be very massive, and supported by buttresses 
four feet wide and sixteen feet high. The north gate-house 
will be 72 feet by 40, and correspond with the other so far 
as relates to distribution and waste pipes, &c. 

HARLEM BRIDGE. 

The new Harlem Bridge, which is built of iron, is "a 
rather clumsy-looking structure, and has cost the counties 
of New York and Westchester about double what it should 
have done ; but it is certainly an immense improvement 
over the rickety old wooden affair which it superseded. 
Just above it is the railroad bridge, over which almost con- 
stantly trundle the trains of the Harlem River and New 
Haven Railroads. 

At this point and vicinity, both above and below the 
bridges, a large number of boats and little smacks are con- 
stantly moored in the fishing season, and a pleasant row on 
the smooth bosom of the delightful little river may be en- 
joyed at a small expense. These, with the expansive water 
view looking toward the mouth of the stream, with the salt, 
seaweedy smell of the tides as they wash through the long 
grasses of the flats, serve to render the place picturesque 
and agreeable, and thousands seek the vicinity, by boat and 
rail, on holidays and summer Sundays. 

HIGH BRIDGE. 

This most important structure connected with the Croton 
Aqueduct is situated at the distance of about eight miles 
from the City Hall. It is thrown across the Harlem valley 
and river. It spans the whole width of the valley and river 



116 PUBLIC WORKS. 

at a point where the latter is 620 feet wide, and the former 
a quarter of a mile. Eight arches, each with a span of 8® 
feet, compose this structure ; and the elevation of the arches 
gives 100 feet clear of the river from their lower side. 
Besides these there are several other arches rising from the 
ground, the .span of which is somewhat more than half that 
of the first mentioned. The material employed throughout 
the whole of this imposing object is granite. The works 
cost $900,000. The water is led over this bridge, which is 
1,453 feet in extent, in iron pipes ; and over all is a path- 
way, which, though wide enough for carriages, is available 
to pedestrians only. The fare by a carriage, allowing 
passengers to remain two or three hours at the bridge, is 
$5. It can be reached pleasantly and expeditiously by the 
Harlem Railroad (Depot Fourth Avenue and Twenty-sixth 
street), or in summer by the Third Avenue Railroad and 
steamboat from Harlem. 

If we go by water, we shall pass the old-fashioned 
tavern and grounds of McComb's Dam — once a favorite- 
halting-place with the owners of fast teams, but of late 
given up to the training of prize-fighters, et al., and long 
since cast in the shade by the more opulent and fashionable 
houses on the other side of the stream. As we proceed up 
the river, the banks on either side grow more bold and 
precipitous, and a single turn in our course gives us a full 
view of High Bridge itself. 

On the lofty bank at the lower extremity of the bridge 
is situated a fine hotel, whose airy saloons and broad 
porticoes are, in pleasant weather, thronged with gentlemen 
and ladies, refreshing themselves after their drives. The 
grounds in the rear include an orchard and handsome- 
gardens, while verdant lawns slope steeply to the water'^ 
edge. 



117 

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

blackwell's island. 

A visit to the several establishments on this island will 
well repay any one interested in the efforts for ameliorating 
human suffering. There are on the island, the Penitentiary, 
with its 500 to 1000 convicts, the Alms-house Hospital, the 
Lunatic Asylum, and the New Work -house, — which last is 
one of the most complete edifices in the country. It is built 
of stone taken from the quarries of the island. It is a very 
spacious building, being capable of holding about 600 per- 
sons ; all its internal arrangements are very complete. The 
humane object of this institution is to separate vagrants from 
criminals, and to compel all to work who are able to do 
something towards their own support. The building, which 
is 325 feet in length, cost about $100,000. Tickets for ad- 
mission to the island can be obtained of the Secretary of the 
Governors of the Alms-house Department, at the Rotunda, 
rear of the City Hall. There are various modes of convey- 
ance thither, — by the Second or Third Avenue cars, and by 
steamer which leaves foot of Twenty-seventh street, East 
River, or by the Harlem stage from 23 Chatham street to 
Sixty-first street, and cross to the island at any hour. 

ward's island 

May also be visited by the same conveyances, on obtaining 
a permit from the Commissioners of Emigration, at their 
office in the New City Hall, near the junction of Chambers 
and Ceutre streets. 

Randall's island 

May be reached also by boat from foot of 27th street, E. R. 
each day at noon. Here are the nurseries for the support and 
instruction of destitute children. This institution is the most 
interesting of all, and commends itself to the sympathies of 
all who would become acquainted with the benevolent agen- 
cies of New York city. Permits may be had, as for Black- 
well's Island. There are usually to be seen here, in the 
several institutions, from 4,000 to 5,000 persons young and 
old. 



IIS BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

THE BLOOMINGDALE ASYLS M FOR THE INSANE, 

A branch of the New York Hospital, is situated in the 
Bloomingdale Road, at a distance of about seven miles from 
the City Hall. It occupies a most beautiful and command- 
ing site, and its approach and surroundings are admirably 
fitted to lighter, the sense of depression and gloom which 
we instinctively associate with every establishment of the 
kind. The treatment administered to its unfortunate in- 
mates, too, is of the most enlightened, humane, and rational 
sort. The principal building is 211 feet in length, 60 in 
depth, and four stories in height, with side buildings. 

The approach to the Asylum from the southern entrance, 
by the stranger who associates the most sombre scenes with 
a lunatic hospital, is highly pleasing. The sudden opening 
of the view, the extent of the grounds, the various avenues 
gracefully winding through so large a lawn, the cedar 
hedges, the iir and other ornamental trees tastefully dis- 
tributed or grouped, the variety of shrubbery and flowers. 

The central building, is always open to visitors ; and the 
view from the top of it, being the most extensive and beau- 
tiful of any in the vicinity of the city, is well worthy of their 
attention. 

THE NEW YORK ORPHAN ASYLUM, 

Situated in Bloomingdale, near Eightieth street comprises a 
fine building 120 feet by 60, and nine acres of ground, laid 
out with much taste. These grounds command a splendid 
view of the Hudson and East Rivers with the surrounding 
scenery. There are in this institution about 200 orphans. 
The institution was incorporated by charter in 1807, and its 
present edifice was completed in 1840. It is a most praise- 
worthy institution, and a very interesting one to visit. 

THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, 

Situated on the corner of Duane and Church streets (entrance 
319 Broadway), is a most important benevolent institution. 
It dates back to 1771, when it was founded by the Earl of 
Dunmore, who was at that time governor of the colony. 
The accommodation for patients is not very extensive, though 
excellent in every respect. It is a receptacle in cases of 
sudden accident. It is not altogether gratuitous ; but, to 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 1] 9 

such as are able to pay a little, it offers most important ad- 
vantages, $4 a week commanding the best medical attendance, 
besides nursing and medicine. The students, too, have the 
benefit, for a small annual fee, of accompanying the surgeons 
in their rounds. The institution has an annual revenue, from 
various sources, of about $80,000, which is expended in sup 
port of the establishment. Owing to the gigantic strides of 
commerce, it was found desirable a few years ago, to dispose 
of the larger portion of the hospital grounds for business 
purposes. 

THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, 

Under the management of the Board of Commissioners of 
Charities and Correction, is located at Twenty-sixth street 
and East River. The accommodations here are also excellent. 

Jews' hospital 

Is located at 158 West Twenty-eighth street. 

children's hospital and nursery, 

East Fifty-first street, near Lexington Avenue. 

In connection with the New York Hospital may be men- 
tioned, 

THE NEW YORK DISPENSARIES, 

Which are associations for giving medicine and medical ad- 
vice to the poor. The Northern Dispensary, situated on the 
corner of Christopher and Sixth streets, was founded in 1829 ; 
and the Eastern Dispensary, on the corner of Ludlow street 
and Essex Market Place, was instituted in 1834. There is 
also a still older Dispensary, on the corner of White and 
Centre streets, established in 1795 ; and is estimated to have 
given relief to more than fifty thousand patients since its first 
organization. 

THE DEMILT DISPENSARY , 

Is a fine building at the corner of the Second Avenue and 
Twenty-third street, which with the ground cost $30,000 — 
the noble donation of the late Miss Demilt. About 3,000 
patients are annually benefited by this noble charity of a 
single benefactor. 



120 BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

THE ASYLUM FOR AGED INDIGENT FEMALES 

Is located in Twentieth street, near Second Avenue. Its 
title indicates sufficiently the object of the institution, which 
is both well rilled and well sustained. 

ST. luke's hospital, 

At the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fourth street, is an 
admirable charity instituton, sustained by members of the 
Episcopal Churches of New York. 

THE NEW YORK JUVENILE ASYLUM, 

A stone edifice, situated near High Bridge, is a home and re- 
formatory for neglected children. The asylum, by its charter 
becomes the legal guardian of all such children as may be 
committed to it by the voluntary act of their parents or by 
the precept of a police magistrate. The institution owes its 
origin to Dr. J. E. Russ of this city, so favorably known for 
his exertions in establishing the New York Institution for 
the Blind. The success of the institution has been largely 
promoted by A. R. Wetmore, Esq., who has been its president 
and financier almost from its organization. It occupies about 
20 acres of ground, which is in part cultivated by the children 
who, during their stay in the asylum, are instructed in all 
the branches of a common school education. As soon as their 
improvement will warrant their removal, they are sent to 
the Great West and indentured, where, in a few years, instead 
of being drawn into the vortex of crime as they almost in- 
evitably would have been, if left unprotected in our streets, 
they will many of them become our law-makers and occupy 
places of trust. The institution has a house of reception for 
200 children, at No. 71 West Thirteenth street. All children 
when first committed, must remain in this house ten days, to 
afford their parents an opportunity of reclaiming them. 
The two buildings can accommodate about 700. Take Hud- 
son River railroad or Manhattanville stages to Fort Washing- 
ton or High Bridge. 

THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. 

This noble and well-conducted asylum is situated at 
Fan wood, Washington Heights, on 162d street, which is 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 121 

reached by means of the Hudson River Railroad. The prin- 
cipal building measures 110 feet by 60, and is five stories 
high. It is capable of accommodating from 200 to 300 
pupils, exclusive of the principals and teachers, &c. It is one 
of the best-endowed institutions of benevolence in New York; 
being sustained by appropriations made by the State Legis- 
lature, by the City Corporation, and private benefactions. 
The pupils are instructed in the ordinary branches of 
learning, and some of them in the various trades. Dr Peet 
is the superintendent. Open to the public from half-past 
1 to 4 a. m. every day. 

THE INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND 

Is on the Ninth Avenue, between Thirty-third and Thiry 
fourth streets, occupying thirty- two lots of ground, presented 
by James Boorman, Esq. The edifice is of granite, and of 
the Gothic order of architecture. It owes it origin mainly 
to Dr. J. D. Russ, whose attention was directed to the sight- 
less condition of a large number of the children in the City 
Alms House. Moved by the spectacle, he determined to 
devote himself to their relief, and for* that purpose took 
seven children from the Alms House and gratuitously in- 
structed them for nearly two years, and finally obtained the 
passage of an act by the Legislature for their support. In 
this effort he was ably supported by Samuel Wood, a well 
known member of the Society of Friends, and Dr Samuel 
Akerly, distinguished for his zeal and labours in behalf of 
the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Here also the usual 
branches of education are taught, and the pupils are in- 
structed in the several uselul arts of life. It is an exceed- 
ingly useful object to visit, as is also the Deaf and Dumb 
Asylum. The institution is open to visitors on week days 
from 1 to 6 p. m., and may be conveniently reached by stages 
and cars that run on Eighth Avenue. 

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY AND HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS 

Is located on Thirtieth street, between Fourth and Madison 
avenues. It is under the direction of a society devoted to 
the protection of deserted children, and adult persons who 
may be in distress. This association has largely contributed 
to the relief of the poor and destitute of the city, — in one 



122 BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

year it relieved, and provided with plac< s, over 600 young 
and old. The society publishes a paper .semi-monthly, en- 
titled The Advocate and Guardian, which has a circulation 
of about 15,000 copies; it has also published over 10,000 
tracts, &c. 

THE HOUSE AND SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY 

Has its rooms No 100 West Sixteenth street. It was 
organized in 1850. 

THE SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF POOR WIDOWS WITH SMALL 

CHILDREN, 

Was organized in 1797, by the efforts of the late Mrs. 
Isabella Graham. Its average number of persons relieved, 
is about 200 widows and 500 children. Mrs. L. Perkins', 
first directress, 78 West Fourteenth street. 

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, 

In the Five Points, near Centre and Pearl street. Mr. S. 
B. Halliday now has charge of the House of Industry. Placed 
m the very midst of *squalid poverty and crime, this ex- 
cellent charity has achieved great results in rescuing and 
reclaiming the youth of vicious parentage. Mr. Pease's 
institution dates back only to 1848, yet thus far has its 
progress been incomparably the most successful of any of 
the numerous noble charities of New York. Persevering 
through numberless difficulties, Mr. Pease at length has 
achieved a great success in his laudable endeavors. He has 
now from 100 to 200 inmates, rescued from the purlieus 
of vice and poverty, hopefully engaged in his House of 
Industry. Since its foundation, between 800 and 900 
women have been sent out to places in the country. By 
his economical plan, the major part of the expenses of the 
establishment have been defrayed by the productive labor 
of the inmates. 

LEAKE AND WATT'S ORPHAN HOUSE. 

This praiseworthy institution, founded by the two bene- 
volent persons whose names it bears, is located on Ninth 
Avenue, corner of West 111th Street, and, as its name im- 
plies, is the orphan's friend. 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 123 

THE MAGDALEN FEMALE ASYLUM, 

Situate west of the Harlem Railroad, on Eighty-eighth 
street, near Fifth Avenue. This praiseworthy institution, 
as its name indicates, has been established for the recovery 
and restoration of fallen and distressed females. It is well 
sustained ; and by the self-sacrificing labors of the bene- 
volent, has been productive of great good. 

THE SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR, 

An Asylum for aged and infirm seamen, is situated on 
the north side of Staten Island. It was founded by Capt. 
Randall in 1801, and incorporated in 1800 in New York; 
the present noble building on Staten Island, measures 225 
feet in length, with 160 acres of ground ; about 300 aged 
and disabled seamen are here supported. Near the Quaran- 
tine grounds, are the Seamen's Retreat for the sick, and the 
Home for Sailor's Children, also the Marine Hospital, which 
is supported by an emigrant tax of $2 on every cabin 
passenger, native of a foreign country, and 50 cents for 
every steerage passenger. The fund from these sources, 
amounts to nearly $100,000 per annum. There is yet 
another benevolent marine society, styled the American 
Seamen's Friend Society, whose object is to bring good in- 
fluences to bear upon this class, by preaching, and by open- 
ing boarding-houses, reading-rooms, savings' banks, &c. • 



124 



SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 



YOUNG MEN ? S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

The association was organized, June 1852, for "the im- 
provement of the spiritual, mental, .social, and physical 
condition of young men." It was designed more parti- 
cularly for you sg men from the country who came to the 
great city to enter into business. These young men are 
often crowded into uncomfortable boarding-houses, with 
little to make the evenings pass profitably or pleasantly, 
and easily become a prey to those who are ever on the alert 
to lead young men into evil. The association carried on its 
work quietly, but successfully, in obscure rooms until Decem- 
ber, 1869, when they took possession of their spacious build- 
ing on the corner of Twenty-third street and Fourth Avenue. 

The plot on which the building stands is in the form o f 
an L, having a front of 86 feet on the Fourth Avenue, by 
100 feet in depth on Twenty-third street, with an addition 
of three lots of Twenty-third street, 75 feet front and 100 
feet in depth, making the whole front on Twenty-third 
street, 175 feet. The style of the building is French 
Renaissance, and it is faced with freestone in two colors, 
the general ground being of Belleville stone of a rich purple 
hue, and the mouldings and cornices being of buff-colored 
Ohio freestone, of a color nearly complementary to the 
former. 

The front on the Fourth Avenue is divided into five 
bays, the two corner bays being more enriched than the 
central ones, and having pavilion roofs carried above the 
general line of the roof, and marking the corners of the 
building. 

The front on Twenty-third street has a central p ivilion 
marking the principal entrance, five storys in height, and 
crowned by a square dome enriched by four dormer 
windows. 

The front is flanked at the corners by towers corres- 
ponding with those on the Fourth Avenue, and is divided 
into five bays on either side of the central pavilion. The 



SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 125 

various stories are expressed by rich cornices and bands on 
the fagade ; and the central door is marked by columns and 
enrichments, and is surmounted by the arms of the associa- 
tion. The fagade has a very imposing effect, from its size 
and proportion and beauty of detail. 

The building is divided vertically into a basement and 
five stories, except the central tower, which is six stories in 
height. 

. The basement story is subdivided into a bowling alley, 
three stores, and bathing-rooms for members on the east side 
of the central tower on Twenty-third street, and on the west 
side there are three stores, and a Gymnasium and its acces- 
sories. 

The Gymnasium also extends through the first story, 
and is 50 x 70 feet by 22 feet high. 

The basement under the central tower is used for heating y 
and other apparatus for the general convenience of the 
building. 

The central tower from the first to the fifth story contains- 
the principal staircase, which is of -^stone in the first story, 
and of wood above. 

The first story is divided on the east side of the central 
tower into five stories, and on the west side into four stories 7 
facing Twenty-third street, an entrance to the Lecture Hall 
on the westerly side with stone staircase, and behind which 
is the gymnasium. 

The second story, 1 9 feet high, is divided on the east side 
of the hall into the general Reception Room, 30x48 feet by 
18 feet high, from which a staircase leads to the Gymnasium, 
and another to the Class-rooms, Library, and smaller Lecture 
room on the third story, so arranged that all visitors or 
members pass the Reception Room before going into any 
other apartment. Adjoining the general Reception Room 
are the Reading-room 44x48 feet by 18 feet in height, and 
three Parlors, each 20x30 feet, and wash-room and coat 
closets. 

The Secretary's room, 13x22 feet, is over the central en- 
trance in front of the principal stairs, and communicates with 
the Reception Room and Lecture Hall. 

The Lecture Hall, 90x60, and the westerly stairs to the 
same, occupy the whole space to the west of the central en- 



126 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 

trance on both the second and third stories, and is 36 feet 6 
inches in height, and divided by ornamental iron columns 
into 3 aisles, and is enriched by arches between the columns 
and handsomely painted in fresco. The gallery of the Lec- 
ture Room is entered from the third story from the central 
iind westerly stairs. The Lecture Hall will seat 1,575 per- 
sons comfortably, and has been found to be very well adapted 
to its purposes, its acoustic properties being very perfect and 
the ventilation extremely good. 

The third story on the east of the central hall is divided 
into three classrooms, the smaller Lecture Room, 36x45 feet 
by 17 feet in height, and the Library, 30x72 feet, which is 
carried through the fourth story, and is 30 feet in height. 

The book-cases run along through both Avails of the 
Library, and are reached by galleries and light iron stairs. 
The library is well lighted and neatly decorated in fresco. 

The fourth story to the west of the central hall is divided 
into studios ; there being eighteen studios on this floor. 

The Fifth story is also divided into twenty-one studios. 

The building and lots cost $500,000. $350,000 was given 
to the association for this purpose by the merchants' inter- 
ested in the work; $150,000 is onbond and mortgage. The 
building is elegantly furnished, and presents a cheering ap- 
pearance during the long winter evenings. Open fires of 
English coals blaze in ever} 7 room, and crowds of young men 
can be seen in every room with happy faces. Any young 
man is welcome, be he member or not. 

We take pleasure in inserting the following : 

Building open daily from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. 

The reception-room and parlors are open on the Lord's 
Day, from 1 to half-past 9 P. M. 

Conversational Bible class for young men, conducted by 
Prof. W. 11. Thompson, M.D., every Lord's Day, at 5 P. M. 

Tea is provided at 6 o'clock for the convenience of young 
men attending the class who may board at too great a 
distance to return in time for the evening service. 

Addresses to young men in Association Hall every Sunday 
evening, at half-past 7, by the clergymen of the various 
Evangelical churches of the city, followed by a brief 
prayer meeting. 

Monthly meeting, social and literary, fourth Monday 
evening. 



SOCrETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 'I I 27 

General reception of members and their lady friends, pre- 
ceded by a concert, second Monday evening. 

Literary society every Friday evening. 

Weekly social religious meetings, for young men only, in 
the lecture-room, Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock ; and on 
Saturday evenings, at 9 o'clock, in the east parlor. 

Social worship in the east parlor every evening at half- 
past 9 o'clock. 

Union prayer meeting in the lecture-room every day at 
4 o'clock. 

Young men are cordially invited to the above meetings when 
they do not conflict with engagements in their own churches. 

CLASSES. 

German (Prof. Kuntzler) : Mondays, Wednesdays, and 
Fridays. 

French (Prof. David Cherbuliez) : Tuesdays, Thursdays, 
and Saturdays. 

Bookkeeping: Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 

Writing (Mr. T. P. Dolbear) : Mondays, Wednesdays, 
and Fridays. 

Glee Club (Prof. J. Mosenthal) : Every Wednesday even- 
ing at 8 o'clock 

Gymnastics (Mr. William Wood): Every evening. 

A ticket costing $5 admits the owner to all the above 
classes, and to the use of gymnasium, bowling-alley, and 
baths for one year. 

Besides the buildings above described, the Association 
contains three branches. 

THE COOPER UNION 

Is a noble building erected by Mr. Peter Cooper, of New 
York, and is devoted to the "moral, intellectual, and phy- 
sical improvement of his countrymen." The building covers 
an entire block, having a front on Third Avenue of 19 5 feet, 
on Fourth Avenue 155, on Eighth street 143, and on 
Seventh street 86. It is in . the immediate vicinity of the 
new Bible House, the Astor Library, the Mercantile Library, 
and the rooms of various literary and scientific societies. 
In the basement is a large lecture-room, 125 feet long by 85 



128 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 

wide, and 21 high; and this, and also the first and second 
stories, which are arranged for stores and offices, are rented 
so as to provide a revenue to meet the annual expenses of 
the institute. The institute proper, or the " Union," com- 
mences with the third story, in which is an ' c exhibition- 
room," 30 feet high and 25 by 81, lighted from above by a 
dome. The fourth story may be considered as a part of the 
third, being a continuation of galleries with alcoves for 
painting and sculpture. In the fifth story are two large 
lecture rooms, and the library, consisting of five rooms, 
which connect with each other and with the lecture rooms. 
There are also rooms for experiments, for instruments, and 
for the use of artists. The cost of the building was about 
$300,000, and the annual income from the rented parts is 
from $25,000 to $30,000. The whole is under the control 
of a board of directors for the benefit of the public ; the 
course of lectures, the library, and the reading rooms are 
all free. In the munificence both of the gift and the en- 
dowment, the Cooper Institute stands as a monument to its 
noble-hearted founder more enduring than the pyramids. 
The School of Design for women has rooms in this building. 



ODD FELLOWS HALL. 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows number, in New 
York city, about 90 lodges, and about 12 encampments, in- 
cluding many thousand members ; many of the lodges have 
fine halls, in various parts of this city and the neighboring 
cities of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, &c. ; but the 
grand rendezvous of the order is the large brown-stone build- 
ing at the corner of Grand and Centre streets, erected at a 
cost of $125,000. This imposing edifice presents a noble 
appearance, being substantially built, lofty, and surmounted 
by a dome. It contains a series of highly ornamented lodge- 
rooms, richly furnished and in different styles of architec- 
ture ; some Egyptian, Grecian, Elizabethan, &c. These ele- 
gant apartments are well worth a visit. The average receipts 
of the association which owns this edifice is estimated at 
about $75,000. Their distribution in the form of benefac- 
tions to the sick and poor, is on a scale of corresponding; 
liberality. 



SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 129 

ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED 

MASONS. 

Th M. W. Grand Lodge of the ancient and honorable 
fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New 
York, meets at such commodious place as may be appointed 
on the first Tuesday in March, June, September, and De- 
cember. Subordinate lodges meet every evening in Crosby 
street, corner of Broome street, and at Odd Fellows Hall, 
Grand and Centre streets. 

THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY 

Of New York, hold their monthly meetings at Clinton Hall, 
Astor Place. C. P. Dally, president. 

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 

Founded in 1842. The first President of this Society was 
the late Albert Gallatin, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, 
&c, who held the office until his death in 1846. The object 
of the Society is " the prosecution of inquiries into the origin, 
progress, and characteristics of the various races of men " 
This Society has collected a large amount of materials, and 
has published three volumes of Transactions. The meetings 
are held at the houses of member.-, on the second Tuesday 
in each month. 

THE NEW BIBLE HOUSE, 

Which is approached from Broadway through Astor Place, 
occupies three fourths of an acre of ground, bounded by 
Third and Fourth Avenues, and Eighth and Ninth Streets. 
The form of this gigantic edifice is nearly triangular. It 
has a front of 198 feet on Fourth Avenue, 202 on Eighth 
Street, 96 on Third Avenue, and 132 on Ninth Street. Its 
average depth is about 50 feet. It is the property of the 
American Bible Society. This imposing-looking edifice 
which is substantially built of brick, with stone facings, cost 
nearly $300,000. Ihe principal entrance, which is on the 
Fourth Avenue, has four columns, surmounted with cornice. 
In the fourth story is a stone figure representing Religion 
holding a Bible. 



130 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 

The receipts of the Scciety, at the first year of its 
organization in 181G-1 7, were $37,779,035 ; its receipts since 
then amount to about $5,000,000. It has put in circulation 
about nine millions of Bibles and Testaments ; and given 
some $500 000 to various Missionary Stations to aid in the 
publications of the Holy Scriptures. It has supplied 
thousands of seamen and criminals with copies; as well as 
distributed hundreds of thousands to private families, hotels, 
&c, in every part of the United States. It has produced 
editions of the Bible, or portions of it, in about twenty-four 
different dialects, and aided in issuing it in others. In this 
spacious building the following Societies have their Rooms 
— viz., the Protestant Episcopal Scciety for the Promotion 
of Evangelical Knowledge, the American Board of Commis- 
sioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary 
Society, the New York Colonization Society, Society for the 
Amelioration of the Condition of the Jews, the Home of 
Refuge, Children's Aid Society, Home of the Friendless. 
Nearly GOO persons are employed in the Bible House when 
in full operation. 

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 

Established upwards of half a century, have a noble edifice 
on the corner of Eleventh Street nnd Second Avenue. It is 
an elegant fire-proof structure, built of yellow sandstone from 
the province of New Brunswick, and is splendidly fitted up. 
Its literary collections consists of rare and valuable books 
pertaining to the history and antiquities of the country ; also 
medals, coins, maps, engravings, &c. The Library com- 
prises about 20,000 volumes. There is a fine Picture-gallery 
in the uppermost story ; the Library Hall, Lecture room, 
and various offices are characterized by great architectural 
beauty. Recently there have been added a fine collection 
of Nineveh Marbles, presented by James Lenox, Esq., and 
Dr. Abbott's Egyptian Colled ion (obtained by liberal sub- 
scription), one of the most valuable museums of Egyptian 
antiquities in the world. It contains several hundred relics, 
collected with great care and industry by the learned Dr. 
Abbott, during a residence of twenty years on the banks of 
the Nile. Here arc to be seen mummied men and quad- 
rupeds, the slates of the school-boys in Pharaoh's time, and 



S0CIETIE3 AND ASSOCIATIONS. 131 

the remains of the lamps that were used to lighten the dark- 
ness of Egypt. Many of the objects here are three thousand 
years old. The meetings of the Society are held on the first 
Tuesday of each month; there arc also occasional Lectures 
given, in addition to the regular series. General F. Depeys- 
ter is the President, and the membership of the association 
numbers about 1,500, including the leading literary men of 
the country. 

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. 

The new building for the National Academy of Design is 
one of the most remarkable structures in the city. Princi 
pilly so, because it is the most prominent example thus far 
set before the public, of the effort now being made to revive 
the Gothic Architecture of the Thirteenth Century in its true 
spirit, and adapt it to our own circumstances, materials, and 
necessities. The public have, unfortunately, been led to call 
it Venetian Gothic ; and, from its similarity in proportion, 
and the fact that the upper story is decorated with diagonal 
lines of color introduced into the wall itself, and has no win- 
dows, that it is a copy of the famous Ducal Palace. But a 
careful examination, in comparison with a good photograph 
of that building, will dispel the delusion. 

The carvings on the capitals of the first and second stories 
are well worthy of careful examination, and are more par- 
ticularly remarkable from the fact that they are almost en- 
tirely designed by the men who carved them, and are the 
result of careful stady from natural leaves and flowers. The 
work of the architect, in connection with this decorative 
work, consisted principally of instructions given to the work- 
men in the art of design applied to their own work. 

The fronts of the buildings are built of white Westchester 
county marble, banded with grey-wacke. The ornamented 
iron work of the exterior is worthy of careful attention, bein<>- 
entirely wrought out on the anvil. The main entrance-gates 
are wonderful for their lightness, careful iinish, and strength, 
being the most elaborate piece of architectural wrought iron 
in this country. 

The building is finished throughout with white pine, ash, 
mahogany, oak, and black walnut — no paint being used, but 
-all the woods showing their natural grain. 



132 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. 

The grand staircase approaching the galleries is of solid 
oak, trimmed with walnut, finished in wood on the under as 
well as upper sides. 

The interior accommodations consist as follows : On the 
first floor are the janitor's apartments and the schools, with 
their appropriate dressing-rooms. On the second story are 
the reading-room, libraries, council- room, and lecture-room, 
together with necessary retiring-rooms and an office lor busi- 
ness On the third story are the grand central hall, four 
picture galleries, and the sculpture-room. This edifice has 
been erected at a cost of about $150,000, under the super- 
intendence of the architect, P. B. Wright, Esq., of this city. 

The annual exhibitions of the Academy are held during 
the months of April, May, June, and July, during which the 
building is open to the public for a small admission fee. 
The works of living artists only are exhibited, and no pic- 
tures are accepted that have been previously exhibited in) 
New York. 

The Exhibition of the Artists' Fund Society is generally 
held in the galleries of the Academy, and takes place in 
November and December annually. It is a noble charity ,, 
devoted to the relief of sick and poor artists. 

THE LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 

Is a society of scientific men, formed for the study of natural 
history. Its rooms are in Fourteenth street, near the Fourth 
Avenue. It possesses a good library, and a large museum 
of minerals, plants, and specimens of natural history. It in- 
accessible to the public. 



133 



LIBRARIES. 



THE ASTOR LIBRARY. 



No. 6 Lafayette Place, one block east of Broadway, owes its 
existence to the noble bequest of its founder, John Jacob 
Astor, Esq., who, in a codicil to his will, appropriated the 
sum of $400,000 for its establishment and maintenance. An 
act for its incorporation passed the Legislature of New York 
in 1849, constituting the following named persons, previously 
selected by Mr. Astor, as a Board of Trustees, namely — 
Washington Irving, Win. B. Astor, Daniel Lord, James ,Gr. 
King, Joseph G. Cogswell, Fitzgreene iJalleck, Samuel B. 
Ruggles, Samuel Ward, Charles A. Bristed, and the Mayor 
of New York ex-officfo. To these gentlemen, or to their 
successors, the administration of the affairs of the library 
was consigned. The will of Air. Astor was proved on the 
12 th April, and on the 20 th of May following the Trustees 
held their first meeting accepting their offices, and then ap- 
pointed Mr. J. G. Cogswell, one of their members, Superin- 
tendent of the Library. According to the provisions of the 
bequest $75,000 was the sum authorized to be applied for 
the erection of the building; $120,000 for the purchase of 
books, and the residue of the $400,000 to be invested in real 
estate on Bond or Mortgages, the interest of which is to be 
applied to defray the expenses of maintaining the Library. 
In October following Mr. Cogswell was sent to Europe for 
the purchase of books. Meanwhile the Trustees had select- 
ed the site, and the plan of Mr. A. Saeltzer the architect for 
the Library edifice, which measures 65 feet front, by 120 feet 
in depth, and is in the Florentine style. This building now 
known as the South Library, was opened to the public on 
the 1st of February, 1850, with aboat 80,000 volumes, com- 
prehending the several departments of knowledge. On the 
1st September, 1859, the new or North Library was com- 
pleted, when the entire institution, wholly, re-arranged, was 
re-opened. The new classification of the Library includes 
the grand division being for history and literature of all 
nations. The North or New Building and the original Hall 
for works in all departments of Science. The new building 



134 LIBRARIES. 

and the ground on which it stands are the gifts of William 
B. Astor, Esq., who has also made several large donations 
to the Library, amounting in all to more than $'25,000. The 
entire collection of books amounts to 140,000 volumes. The 
whole value of the estate is about $1,250,000. The real 
value of the collection, is not to be estimated by its numeri- 
cal extent or its pecuniary cost, but by its intrinsic value 
of its books. In this respect the Astor Library takes pre- 
cedence of all others in this country. J. G. Cogswell, col- 
lected and catalogued the Library. He resigned his office 
of Superintendent in 1SG1, and Mr. Scroeder succeeded Lim, 
His resignation took place on the 1st of July, 1871, when 
Mr. E. R. Strazincky was appointed to the position, Septem- 
ber 1, 1871. The assistant libiaiians are F. Saunders, W. 
Tyler. Present board of Truestees — Messrs. W. B. Astor,. 
J. J. Astor, J. B. Ruggles, J. C. Brevoort, J. H. Fish, J. B. 
Brcdhead, J. A. Hamilton, W. Hoppin, Dr. T. Markoe. Gen, 
Dix, and the Mayor of New York. 
Open from 9.30 to 5 P. M. 

THE APPRENTICES' LIBRARY, 

Containing about 16,000 volumes for the use of youthful 
apprentices, is in the Mechanics' Hall, 472, Broadway, near 
Gran el street. 

THE CITY LIBRARY 

Is in the City Hall, and is free to all persons. 

THE WOMAN'S LIBRARY 

Is in the New York University Building, fronting on Wash- 
ington Square, 

MERCANTILE LIBRARY. 

Occupies the Clinton Hall building in Astor Place, Eighth 
street. This noble establishment comprises a fine library, 
and reading room. Its literary collections number upwards 
of 150.000 volumes, in the several departments of general 
knowleelge, including also a valuable series of 500 periodical 
works, unsurpassed by any other institution. The number 
of books circulated each year is about 275,000. The num- 



COLLEGES AND SEMINARIES. 135 

ber of its members at the present time exceeds 10,000. 
This institution, originally established for the use of clerks, 
has been since thrown open to the public on payment of the 
subscription, $5 per annum. Clerks pay Si initiation fee, 
and Si annual dues. Peter Voorhces, President, G. F. 
Schmerhorn, Librarian. 



COLLEGES & SEMINARIES. 

THE COLLEGE OF TUB CITY OF NEW YORK, 

In Twenty-third street, corner of Lexington Avenue, was 
established in 1848, by the Board of Education of the city 
of New York, in pursuance of an act passed May 7, 1817, 
for the purpose of providing higher education for such 
pupils of the Common Schools as may wish to avail them- 
selves thereof. The college is under the general superin- 
tendence of the Board of E lue ition ; but it is specially under 
the supervision of an Executive Committee, for its care, 
government, and management, appointed by the Board. 
All its expenses for instruction, apparatus, library, cabinet, 
collections, books, and stationery, are paid out of the public 
treasury. 

The cost of the ground was $37,810, the edifice, $75,000 
and the interior furniture, apparatus, &e , $20,867. The 
building measures 125 feet by 80, and will accommodate 
1,000 pupils. 

The students are admitted in annual classes, and the full 
course of study embraces five years. 

The Board of Education is authorized by law to confer 
for the usual collegiate degrees on the recommendation of 
the faculty. 

Graduates may become " Resident Graduates," and con- 
tinue their studies at option. The Academical Studies during 
Term time, continue daily (except Saturday and Sunday) 
from a quarter before 9 o'clock, a. m. to 3 o'clock, p. m. 



136 COLLEGES AND SEMINARIES. 



THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 



Is located on the east side of Washington Square, and forms 
a noble architectural ornament, being of the English colle- 
giate style of architecture. The University was established 
in 1831, and has ever maintained its high reputation. It 
has a chancellor, and a corps of professors in the various 
departments of learning. There is also a grammer school 
connected with the institution ; also, a valuable library, 
philosophical apparatus. <fec. The edifice is of marble, and 
measures about 200 feet iu front by 100 in depth; it pre 
sents a very beautiful appearance as seen through the thick 
foliage of the park. The great central gothic window lights 
the chapel of the University; divine service is held here 
every Sunday at the usual hours. The principal entrance 
is by the centre door, up a flight of marble steps. In the 
upper parts of the building are several chambers and offices 
occupied by various societies, literary persons and artists. 

COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 

Originally, chartered by George II, in 1754, under the title 
of King's College, till within short period, stood in Park 
Place, The present edifice is on Forty-ninth Street, near 
the Fifth Avenue. It has a president and twelve professors ; 
a choice library of rare classical works of about 18,000 vols., 
museum, &c. A grammar school is attached to the institu- 
tion over which a professor presides as rector. 

COLLEGE OF ST. PKANCIS XAVIER. 

This institution, situated on Fifteenth Street, between 
Fifth and Sixth Avenues, was founded in 1850. With its 
Grammar School it contains about four hundred pupils, The 
library contains about 15,000 volumes. The Rev. Joseph 
Loyzance is president. 

MANHATTAN COLLEGE. 

This newly incorporated University is situated at Man- 
hattan ville. 

THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 

Is situated No. 9. University Place, between Waverly Place 



COLLEGES AND SEMINARIES. 137 

and Eigth Street. The principal edifice comprises four 
large lecture rooms, chapel, library of 16,000 volumes, and 
studies, also other rooms for students. It has six professors, 
and usually about a 100 studeuts.. It was founded, 1836. 

THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 

Of the Episcopal Church is situated in Twentieth Street 
corner of Ninth Avenue, near the Hudson, two miles from 
the City Hall. There are two handsome buildings of stone, 
for the accommodation of professors and students. The 
Board of Trustees consists of all the bishops, and one 
trustee from each diocese in the United States. The insti- 
tution is well endowed and in a nourishing condition. 

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 

This is a handsome edifice, corner of Twenty-third street 
and Fourth Avenue. It was founded in 1807, has eight 
professors and about two hundred students. There is a small 
library here of about 1,500 volumes, and an anatomical 
museum. These museums are accessible to the public on 

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE. 

Is located at Fo. 90 East Thirteenth street, It was char" 
tered in 1850, and is devoted to to the instruction of young 
medical practitioners. It possesses a valuable anatomical 
museum, chemical laboratory, &c. There is also in this 
building the College of Pharmacy. 



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CHURCHES. 

It is estimated that there are about 300 churches in New 
York ; many of them being of great elegance. We annex 
brief notices of the more prominent and noteworthy. 

TRINITY CHURCH. 

Fronting Wall Street, with its portal invitingly open 
every day in the year, stands Trinity Church, a beautiful 
temple of worship, in strange contiguity with the busy marts 
where "merchants most do congregate." It is the third 
edifice of the kind erected upon the spot, the first having 
been destroyed in the great fire of 1776. This fine gothic 
structure was completed in 1846, having been seven years in 
building, under the careful superintendence of Mr. Upjohn, 
the architect. The church is 192 fee£ in length, 80 in breadth, 
and 60 in height. The interior will richly repay examina- 
tion. Among many relics there carefully pieserved is an 
elaborate chancel service of silver, presented to the corpora- 
tion by Queen Anne. 

The steeple towers up 284 feet in height ; the walls of the 
church arc nearly 50 feet high, and the whole edifice, both 
as to its exterior and interior, is regarded by most persons 
as the most elegant and cathedral-like of the churches of the 
city. Do not forget to ascend the steeple to get a panoramic 
view of the city. 

" The grave-yard of Old Trinity occupies nearly an entire 
block. Within it are the venerated tombs of Alexander 
Hamilton, the statesman and friend of Washington ; the 
heroic commander Lawrence, and many other illustrious 
public men. 

Adjoining Trinity buildings, and a few feet from Broad- 
way, stands the monumental tribute of the Corporation of 
Trinity Church to the honored " Sugar House Martyrs." Of 
finely cut and ornamented brown stone, it presents a grace- 
ful appearance, while it attracts the especial interest of every 
American patriot from the fact that the ground immediately 
under and around it, is rich with the ashes of our Revolution- 
ary fathers. 



CHURCHES. 13 D 

TRINITY CHAPEL 

(Episcopal), situated on Twenty-fifth street, near Broadway, 
and extending from Twenty-fifth to Twenty -sixth street, is a 
spacious and elegant edifice, erected by the Trinity Church 
Corporation, and cost $200,000. The length of the building 
is 180 feet; width, 54 feet. The inside walls are of Caen 
stone ; the windows are of richly stained glass, and the ceiling 
painted blue, with gilt ornaments. The floors are tiled ; and 
the seats are moveable benches, as in the cathedrals of the 
Continent. 

st. paul's chapel, 

The third Episcopal church established in the city, was 
erected in 1766. It stands between Fulton and Vesey streets, 
opposite the N. Y. Herald. The length of the edifice is 151, 
and the width 73 feet. The steeple is 203 feet high. 

On the front, in a niche of red sandstone, in the centre of 
a large pediment, supported by four Ionic columns, is a white 
marble statue of St. Paul, leaning on a sword. Also in the 
front part of the niche there is inserted a slab of white 
marble, bearing an inscription to the memory of General 
Montgomery, who fell at Quebec during the Revolution, and 
whose remains were removed to New York by order of the 
State in 1818. At the lower side of the church, facing Broad- 
way, is an obelisk of white marble, erected in honor of 
Thomas Addis Emmet, the Irish patriot and barrister, who 
died herein 1827. The inscriptions are in Latin, Irish, and 
English. 

st. john's chapel 

(Episcopal). This is one of the associate churches of the 
Trinity Corporation. It is located opposite the Hudson River 
R. R. Freight Depot. It is not modern in style, but yet a 
very noble looking edifice. It is built of sandstone, and is 
very spacious, measuring 132 feet by 80. It has a deep 
portico in front, formed by a pediment and four massive 
columns. 

In all the ancient churches of New York city, the plan 
of a collegiate charge was the rule. The ancient Episcopal 



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church of the city was established on this basis. Trinity 
Church was considered the parish church, and had a collegiate 
charge ; St. George's, St. John's, and St. Paul's were called 
" Chapels." St. George's is now a distinct charge, but the 
other two are still collegiate. 

ST. MARKS CHURCH 

(Episcopal), situate in Stuyvesant street, to the east of the 
Bowery, was buiU in its present form in 1826 

The steeple is lofty, but somewhat venerable in appear- 
ance, which is indeed the character of the entire structure. 
The church is venerable also on account of its historic asso- 
ciations ; it stands on what was the estate of Petrus Stuy- 
vesant, the last of the Dutch governors, and his remains rest 
in a vault under church, over which, on the east side, is 
a tablet indicating the fact. Here also repose the mortal re- 
mains of the English governor, Col. Sloughter, and those of 
the American Governor, Tompkins The Rev. Dr. Vinton is 
the present minister. 

st. george's church 

(Episcopal). This spacious and elegant structure, the most 
capacious ecclesiastical ediiice in the city, is situated in East 
Sixteenth street, opposite Stuyvesant Square. It was erected 
in 1849, and for architectural beauty is entitled to the first 
stand among religious edifices of New York. Its imposing 
exterior, and vast interior, unsupported by any visible 
columns, either to roof or gallery, impart to it a fine effect 
Its architecture is of the Byzantine order; its length 170 feet 
by 94 in width. Its entire cost $250,000. The adjoining 
rectory cost $20,000, and the chapel $10,000. The ground 
upon which the church stands was given by the late Peter 
G. Stuyvesant. The Rev. Dr. Tyng is Rector. The interior 
of this splendid church was entirely destroyed by fire, sup- 
posed to be the work of an incendiary, during the latter 
part of 1865, entailing a heavy loss on the society, as it was 
but partially insured. The fine towers of red* sandstone 
were, however left intact and uninjured, as were also the 
massive walls of the building. . The interior' was accordingly 
rebuilt, and the edifice now surpasses, in its internal appoint- 
ments, even its former elegance. 



142 CHURCHES. 



GRACE CHURCH. 



(Episcopal). This superb edifice, the most ornate of the 
ecclesiastical buildings of New York, is located in Broadway, 
near Tenth street, and commands a fine view of the great 
avenue of the city, north and south. The lofty spiral and 
richly decorated steeple is an object of universal admira- 
tion. There is one large and two less sized d&ors in front- 
Over the main entrance is a circular window of stained glass, 
and two tall, oblong windows in each side of the upper section 
of the tower. Within is a grand array of pillars, carved 
work, and upwards of forty windows of stained glass, each 
giving different hues of vission. There is a little too much of 
theatrical glitter in the interior, to comport with the chasten- 
ed solemnities of religious worship. It was built in 1845. 
Mr. Renwick was the architect. The cost of the building 
was $145,000. The Rev. Dr. Potter is the present rector. 

THE CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION 

Is situated on the north side of Twenty-ninth street, just 
east of Fifth Avenue, and, with its adjoining Chapel and 
Rector, more interesting from its quaint irregularity and air 
of seclusion, than for any architectural pretensions. Indeed 
it may be said to have no architecture at all. The original 
edifice was erected about fourteen years ago, with the Rev. 
G. H. Houghton as Rector and a congregation of three mem- 
bers. From time to time, as the congregation grew in 
numbers and wealth, additions were made, by appending a 
little chapel at this end, a porch at that end, and a wing at 
the side, until finally the original building itself disappeared, 
and gave place to another equally quaint and plain. A glimmer 
of the Gothic seems to pervade the low, simple eaves, with 
here and there, in a short slender column or two, perhaps 
a shadow of the Arabesque, or something else ; so that it is 
in vain to place the whole structure within the confines of 
any specific order of art, 

With its attendant buildings, the church occupies about 
ten lots on the street ; and with the row of small trees in 
front, and the liitle green between the buildings, and the 
iron railing enclosing them, it would seem, were it not for 
the out-door bustle and life of the near Avenue, much like 
one miirht imagine that little church wherein Tom Pinch 



CHURCHES. 143 

was wont to play the organ near the residence of the archi- 
tectural Pecksniff. 

The size of the interior, however, is far greater than one 
would suppose. When the chapel is given into the main 
body of the church, as is the custom, by means of folding- 
doors, this, with the interior of the wing, stretching south- 
ward to the street, affords accommodations for a much larger 
congregation than those of many buildings of far more pre- 
tentious exterior. The ceiling is very low, and of smooth 
simple-arched oaken wood — the material of all the furniture. 
The chancel is comparatively small, and contains, besides 
the altar, a font of simple and exquisite design, and of the 
pure Parian. The windows are small and narrow, and 
prettily stained, as are also the windows over the chancel 
recess. 

The church has recently obtained a world-wide appella- 
tion as " The Little Church around the Corner," a term given 
to it by a neighboring clergyman, who, refusing to bury an 
actor from his own church, referred the applicants to this. 

THE UNITARIAN CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH 

Occupying a commanding site at the northwest corner of 
Thirty-fourth Street and Park Avenue, was only completed 
a year ago — the dedication taking place in April, 1868 — and 
exhibits in its completion many traits of simple beauty. 
The architecture may be best expressed as the Rhenish- 
Gothic style. It is built of brick, with gray sandstone 
trimmings, and covers a spice, including a chapel, of 80 by 
14.5 feet. The eatrance on Thirty-fourth Street, is of light- 
colored stone, elaborately carved, and a little gem as a piece 
of architecture. 

The walls of the interior, which arc of plain plaster at 
present, will be decorated anl painted at some future day; 
and the ceiling is of the simple pendant order. Including 
the ground, the Church of tha Messiah was erected at a 
cost of $250,000. The Tvev. Samuel Osgood, D. D., is the 
pastor. 

Immediately adjoining the Church of the Messiah, and 
occupying theavenuj block between Thirty- fifth and Thirty- 
sixth Street;, is the larger and nore elaborated Presbyterian 
Cuureh of the Coven.mt. 



144 CHURCHES. 

Its dedication dates three years prior to that of its 
neighbor. It is of the Lombardo-Gothic style of architec- 
ture, and in many of its characteristics, is worthy of atten- 
tion of the student in that branch of art. It faces the 
avenue, and is built of rich gray-stone. 

st. Patrick's cathedral. 

(Roman Catholic), on the corner of Prince and Mott streets, 
was erected in 1815. This building, although not of much 
architectural beauty, is very spacious, it being nearly 160 
feet in length by 80 in width. The rear of the church is 
ornamented with Gothic windows. The interior presents an 
imposing effect, the ceiling being very lofty, from which 
spring large pillars, on which are lamps pendant. It will 
accommodate 2,000 persons. 

THE NEW ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, 

Is a vast edifice in the course of construction, between Fifty- 
first and Fifty-second streets, on the east side of the 
Avenue, which, when completed, will be by far the most 
magnificent building in the New World. 

The structure under consideration was projected by the 
late Archbishop Hughes, who laid the corner-stone in 1858, 
during which and the following year the foundations were 
laid, and a portion of the superstructure built, when work 
was temporarily suspended. Upon the accession of Arch 
bishop McCloskey, however, a new impetus was given to the 
work, which has been vigorously prosecuted ever since. 

The ground occupied (extreme length, 332 feet; general 
breadth, 132 feet, with an extreme breadth at the transepts 
of 174 feet) is the most elevated on Fifth Avenue, there being 
a gradual descent both toward the south and toward Central 
Park on the north. The site, indeed, is singularly happy 
and fortunate for so great and imposing a structure. 

A stratum of solid rock — which in some places is twenty 
feet below the surface, necessitating a cutting into steps to 
receive the mason-work — supports the foundations, which 
are of immense blocks of stone, laid by derricks in cement 
mortar. The first base-course is of Maine granite — the same 
as was used in the Treasury Building at the national capital, 



CHURCHES. 145 

and the upper surface of the foundations, upon which it rests,, 
are chisel-dressed, and apparently as solid as the crust of the 
earth. 

The material above the base course is of white marble, 
from the quarries of Pleasantville, Westchester County — a 
highly crystalline stone, productive of very beautiful effects, 
especially in the columns and elaborations of the work. 

The style of the building is decorated Gothic — that 
which prevailed in Europe from the beginning of the thir- 
teenth century to the close of the fourteenth — and will con- 
stitute a judicious mean between the heaviness of the latter 
period and the over-elaboration of later times. Judging from 
the picture of the building as complete, it appears to be more 
nearly modelled upon the celebrated Cathedral of Cologne ; 
but there are also fine and correct examples of the same 
order of architecture in Rheims and Amiens. 

The decoration of the front (Fifth Avenue) will be un- 
surpassed in this or any other country. There will be a 
tower and spire on each corner, each measuring 328 feet 
from the ground to the summit of the cross, and each 32 feet 
square at the base, and thence to the point at which the form 
assumes the octagonal — a height of 136 feet. The towers 
maintain the square form to this height, then rise in octagonal 
lanterns, 54 feet in height, and then spring into magnificent 
spires to a further elevation of 138 feet. The towers and 
spires are to be ornamented with buttresses, niches with 
statues, and pinnacles so arranged as to disguise the change 
from the square to the octagon. 

The central gable, between the two towers, will be 156 
feet high. '1 he main entrance will be richly decorated, 
flanked on either side by a large painted window, and em- 
bowered in carved symbols of religion. It is intended to 
have this structure completed within ten years. 

THE FIRST^BAPTIST CHURCH, 

Corner of Broome and Elizabeth street, was erected in 
1841. It measures 99 by 75 feet, and 70 feet height, is of 
the Gothic order, built of rough stone, with the lintels, 
cornices, and battlements of brown sandstone. It was con- 
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THE BRICK CHURCH. 



(Presbyterian,) situate on the corner of Thirty -seventh street 
and Fifth Avenue, is a spacious brick edifice, with a lofty 
spire. Rev. Dr. Spring is the minister. 

st. Paul's m. e. church. 

On Fourth Avenue, corner of Twenty-second street, is a 
new magnificent edifice, built of marble, in the Romanesque 
style. Its entire length is 146 feet, by 77, the height of the 
spire is 210 feet. The cost of the church, parsonage, &c, is 
estimated at $130,000. 

THE FOURTH UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. 

This is the Rev. Dr. Chapin's. Situated on the corner 
of Fifth Avenue and Forty^fifth street. The main building 
is 80 feet by 100. Gothic style. It has a frontage, in- 
cluding the towers, of 95 feet, and the towers are 185 feet 
high. The height of the main building is 90 feet. The 
basement for Sunday-school, lecture-room &c, extends over 
the entire church, and is 11 feet in height. The entire cost 
of the church and ground is estimated at $170,000. 

THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, 

Situated on Fourth street and Lafayette Place, was built 
in 1839. It measures 110 feet long by 75 wide; it cost 
$160,000. Its exterior is very good; but its interior is 
characterised by simple elegance. The pulpit is of white 
marble. The Collegiate Dutch Church is one of the oldest 
establishments of the kind in the city. Associated with these 
Church Associations are the " North Church," in Fulton 
street ; the new and elegant Church in Fifth Avenue, corner 
of Twenty-ninth street ; Ninth-street Church ; and that we 
have just described, on Lafayette Place. The venerable 
Dr. De Witt and others are the officiating clergymen. 

THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. 

Situate on the east side of Washington Square, was erected 
in 1840, of rough granite. It is in the Gothic style, with a 
large centre window and two towers. Its interior is very 



148 CHURCHES. 

finished and effective, especially the ornamental carved 1 , 
work of the organ pulpit, &c. The entire cost of the edifice 
■was $125,000. The Rev. Dr. Hutton has long been the 
minister. 

CHURCH OF ALL SOULS 

(Unitarian), corner of Fourth Avenue and 20th street, is an 
eccentric and remarkable edifice, being built in the style of 
the Italian churches of the middle ages, of brick and delicate 
cream colored stone in alternate courses. Adjoining the 
church, on 20th street, is the parsonage. Included in the 
design is to be a spire, or campanile, 300 feet high. The 
Rev. Dr. Bellows is the minister. 

THE FRENCH CHURCH. 

The congregation of the French Church, styled "Eglise 
du St. Esprit, 1 ' has removed from Franklin street, corner of 
Church, to Twenty second street, between Fifth and Sixth, 
Avenues. The new church is Gothic, and very elegant. It 
will seat about 1,000 persons. The rector is the Rev. Dr. 
Verren. 

jews' synagogues. 

There are upwards of a dozen synagogues in this city. 
The most notable are the following : — 

Shaarai Tephila (Gates of Prayer), No 112 Wooster 
street, near Prince street, and 

Bnai Jeshurun (Sons of Jeshurun), in Greene street, near.- 
Houston street. 



149 



GREENWOOD CEMETERY 



Became a Chartered Institution in 1838. Its location was 
the result of a careful and extensive survey of the entire 
vicinity of New York. The enterprise, after four years of 
hard struggle, was at length placed upon a firm foundation, 
and the Cemetery was thrown open for interments in 1842. 
From that time its history has been one of uninterrupted 
progress. The original enclosure of one hundred and sevent}^- 
five acres has swelled, by successive additions on the west 
and south, to its present dimensions of 413 acres. Broad, 
substantial roads underlaid with stones, and bordered on 
the declivities with paved gutters, furnish, at all seasons, a 
hard and pleasant carriage path of many miles, and conduct 
the visitor to every part of the Cemetery. Commodious and 
inviting foot-paths, wind round every hill, and explore each 
dell and shady nook. The work of grading the entire 
grounds, involving an immense amount of labor, is now all 
but completed, and has been prosecuted with a constant re- 
gard both to beauty and utility. The water of Sylvan Lake 
is forced by steam power into an elevated reservoir, whence 
it is conveyed by pipes to different parts of the ground, to 
>be used in irrigation and for the supply of fountains. 

The Cemetery is entered at its northwestern angle from 
the Fifth Avenue, and also on the southern side from the 
old road known as Martense's Lane. The original entrance 
and for many years the sole entrance, was a little south of 
what is now the northwestern corner of the grounds. This 
narrow passage-way, with its simple, rustic, yet picturesque 
lodge and bell-tower, was strictly in consonance with the 
limited purpose. The increasing number of visitors and of 
funerals, together with various annoyances which gathered, 
at length, around this only approach, led to the opening in 
1850, of what is now called the Western Entrance. During 
the twelve following years, visitors found admission to Green- 
wood almost wholly through this fine approach — the northern 
gate being appropriated to funerals. 



150 GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 

The extension of the Fifth Avenue in 1869, upon a cause- 
way of high grade, running directly by and across the West- 
ern Entrance, involved the necessity of a viaduct at that 
point. The stone archway built by the Trustees, over which 
the public travel passes, and through which visitors enter 
or leave the Cemetery, is a work that will compare, in 
solidity and beauty, with any similar structure in the country. 
This intrusion of the Avenue made a change of position 
necessary in regard to some of the buildings connected with 
this entrance, and they were accordingly removed to the 
western side of the viaduct. The gate-house here is a hand- 
some wooden structure, with bell-tower and clock, rooms for 
the gate-keeper and family, and a room for visitors. Near 
by is a Gardener's Lodge, and not far off, close to the Fourth 
Avenue, the house occupied by the Superintendent of the 
workmen. A cottage occupied by the Engineer of the 
Water Works, a commodious and neat carpenter and black- 
smith shop, large barn and stables, storehouse and sheds, 
comprise the other buildings at this entrance. Some of 
these erections are consequent upon the purchase of land in 
1867, by which direct access to this entrance was effected. 
The widening of the Fourth Avenue to 120 feet, both sides 
being lined with trees the entire length of the Avenue, nearly 
four miles, and the road bed being macadamized, will render 
this approach very attractive and desirable for vehicles of 
all kinds. 

At the Southern Entrance, on Martense's Lane, a neat 
Lodge flanks the gate, and is occupied by the Assistant 
Superintendent of the workmen. On Battle Hill is a small 
cottage, occupied by an assistant of the Superintendent of 
Interments, and in the north-easterly boundary of the 
Cemetery near Ocean Hill, stands a cottage tenanted by one 
of the workmen. Nine dwellings in all, occupied by as many 
families, are within the enclosure of the Cemetery. 

In 1860, it was resolved to open a spacious and command- 
ing entrance at the northwestern corner of the Cemetery. 
Such an entrance, indeed, had been contemplated for many 
years, and would have been much earlier made, but for a 
series of difficulties which prevented the Trustees from ac- 
quiring full possession of the ground required. 

This Northern Entrance, commenced in 1861, was com- 
pleted in 1863, and constitutes, henceforth, the principal 



GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 151 

mode of access to the Cemetery. It is situated at that point 
of the ground which lies nearest to the vast population of 
New York and Brooklyn, and may be reached, at any hour 
of the day, by means of the horse cars, which start in con- 
stant and frequent succession, from four ferries. Its outer 
gate closed only at night, opens upon the Filth Avenue, 
directly opposite to the termination of Twenty-fifth street. 
An approach, graded with immense labor, and which, in a 
few years, will be beautifully shaded, leads, by a broad and 
gradually widening area, to the grand entrance. The great 
gate-way, which faces the north, is an imposing and elabor- 
ate got hie edifice, solidly constructed of the best New Jersey 
sandstone. Two passage-ways through the massive structure 
are appropriated — one to funerals, the other to visitors. A 
room for the latter to rest in, and fire proof offices for the 
Cemetery business, occupy the lower part of the building. 
Upwards it terminates in three lofty pinnacles. The entire 
structure, built after designs by R. Upjohn & Son, is 132 feet 
Q inches long, and 40 feet deep. The central pinnacle is 106 
feet high. There is a bell for the passing procession, and a 
clock to strike the hours. The deep, triangular recesses of 
the pediments above the two gate-ways are filled in, on both 
sides, with groups of sculpture formed of Nova Scotia sand- 
stone. These four groups represent, in durable material and 
strong relief, viz. : The Saviour's Entombment ; His Resur- 
rection ; the Resurrection of the Widow's Son and Raising 
of Lazarus. Still higher up, on the four shields which sur- 
mount the quatre foils, are figures in relief of Faith, of Hope, 
of Memory, and of Love. The conception and execution of 
all this expressive and appropriate sculpture are due to Mr. 
John Moffit, an ingenious young artist. Those scenes familiar 
to every reader of the Gospel narrative will, it is hoped, lift 
the thoughts of many afflicted mourners, as they enter and 
as they leave this home of the dead, to Him who is the Re- 
surrection and the Life. 

To this structure — by far the most imposing feature of 
Greenwood, and its fit vestibule, — we invite your special 
attention. It belongs not to Pagan, but to Christian archi- 
tecture. Its breadth, massiveness and height are sufficient 
to invest it with dignity and impressivcness. In its form it 
exhibits that pleasing union of firm solidity and airy grace, 
which marks the best specimens of Gothic art. In its 



152 GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 

sculptured pediments it presents life like pictures of those 
sacred scenes, which have consoled and cheered the Chris- 
tian mouruer for more than eighteen hundred years. 

The masonry of these walls is of tie most skilful and 
substantial character, while the material is one of the most 
beautiful, and, as we firmly believe, one of the most durable 
of all our buildings of stone. Such is the structure which is 
now committed to the care of the present and of coming 
generations, in full confidence lhat it will become, as years 
roll on, more and more an object of interest and admiration. 

The original entrance being no longer needed, is closed, 
and its rustic structures have been taken down. A neat 
stone cottage, in harmony with the architecture of the new 
gate, has been erected near it, fur the porter's use. Adjoin- 
ing this is a commodious stable for horses employed on the 
ground by the superini endent of interments and the sur- 
veyor ; and, in the rear of the stable, two large buildings for 
the reception of tools, and for storage purposes. A dwelling- 
house, conveniently near the entrance is occupied by the 
superintendent of interments, and one, more recently built, 
for the assistant superintendent, is close by. To all these 
buildings gas is supplied, and also water from the Brooklyn 
City mains. Everything connected with these improvements 
has been done in the most substantial and thorough manner, 
with a view, not only to present appearance, but to permanent 
duration and effect 

It is an incidental, but by no means unimportant, result 
of these changes, that some of the choicest grounds in the 
whole Cemetery, heretofore inapplicable to burial purposes, 
have now been graded and prepared for sale. 

Large receiving tombs have been constructed on the 
edge of Arbor Water, which have proved ample, thus far; 
for every requirement. 

The entire surface of the Cemetery has been surveyed 
with trigonometrical precision, and has been divided into 
rectangular sections, where practicable, of three hundred 
square feet each. By reference to the field-book, in which 
these are all plotted, and where the occupied lots are duly 
entered, every foot of ground within the enclosure may be 
defined, or identified, with absolute certainty. As another 
result of this survey, a new and larger map has been con- 
structed, and is ready for use. The visitor may now avail 



GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 153 

nimself of a plain and perfectly reliable chart, on which he 
will find depicted not only numerous and various inequali- 
ties of these grounds, but all their avenues and paths clearly 
delineated and distinctly named. 

It would be difficult to make anything like an accurate 
estimate of the vast amount which has been expended by 
individual proprietors on the many thousand lots already 
sold. Several hundred tombs have been constructed — and 
their vaults, whether placed in side-hills or sunk in the 
ground, are generally of massive stone-work and durable 
masonry. The side-hill tombs, are in most cases, fronted 
"by architectural facades, various in form, and often beauti- 
ful. In addition to a great number of horizontal tablets, 
and small headstones, the Cemetery contains probably more 
than two thousand monuments of marble, of sienite, or of 
sandstone. These, as might be expected, vary greatly in 
magnitude and style, and range from forms quite simple and 
Inexpensive, to others of great size and costly decoration. 
"The number of interments made in the Cemetery is now 
about one hundred and fifty thousand. 

With the results of the experiment thus far, as exhibited 
in the improvements of the Cemetery, and in its daily 
management, the community for whose benefit it was de- 
signed, seems to be more than satisfied. It may well be 
•questioned, whether, anywhere else, or ever before, a place 
of burial has awakened an interest so deep and wide ; — an 
interest, evinced not only by the rapidly increasing demand 
for lots and graves, but by the thronging thousands who 
daity visit the spot. 

Since the time when, amid alternations of hope anddis- 
eouragement, the foundations of this institution were laid, a 
great change has taken place in the public sentiment of our 
community. It is not now necessary to urge the manifold 
evils of intramural interment, or to present and portray the 
immense superiority of rural sepulture ; for the former are 
no longer denied or doubted — and the latter has been prac- 
tically demonstrated. The question may be looked upon as 
settled. Cities cease to endure within their limits the offen- 
sive and pestilential danger. The prejudices of early asso- 
ciation, and even the ties of love and kindred, cannot longer 
reconcile the minds of any to the crowded church-yard 
vault. 



154 GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 

Those very feelings, so natural and so strong, which long 
bound thousands to an objectionable practice, have now set 
in another and better direction. Beneath the verdant and 
flowery sod — beneath green and waving foliage — amid tran- 
quil shades, where Nature weeps in all her dews, and sighs 
in every breeze, and chants a requiem by each warbling bird 
— the dying generations of this great metropolis will hence- 
forth be sepulchred. 

Already, around our Greenwood, cling the strong affec- 
tions of many thousand hearts. Here lie the parent, the 
wife, the husband, the child, the lover, and the friend, once 
dearer to the surviving mourner than all else on earth. 
Hither often those survivors come, to weep and meditate 
unseen. And here, by the mouldering relics of what was 
once so dear, do they hope, at last, to lie down themselves. 
Nor are these grounds destitute of that broader interest 
which attaches itself to the names and memories of those 
who have made themselves illustrious by deeds of greatness 
or lives of goodness. Here crumble the frail tenements, in 
which learning and piety, patriotism and courage, once made 
their glorious home. If the brief experience of the past has 
accomplished so much, what expectations of the future may 
not safely be indulged? What tender associations, what 
kindling memories, what inspiring thoughts, what Christian 
hopes, will be awakened in the breasts of those who, at some 
coming and not distant day, shall explore this silent city of 
the dead ! 

Long may this fair enclosure be preserved, unmarred by 
mistaken taste — undesecrated by rude hands. Let the worn 
and weary citizen still find here a momentary but soothing 
retreat from bustle and toil. Here may Sorrow and pensive 
Meditation ever find a home. And hither let even the idle 
and the thoughtless come to learn the lesson of their own 
mortality from the eloquent but unobtrusive teachings of the 
tomb. 

HINTS AND RULES FOR VISITORS. 

While we allow that those who ride or drive through the 
principal avenues, may see and may enjoy much, it is still 
true that the pedestrian alone becomes acquainted with 
Greenwood. He only finds the cross-roads — climbs the 
hills — dives into the dells, and wanders at will through 



GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 155 

scores of sequestered and leafy paths. Among the hundred 
and twenty-five thousand graves in this Cemetery, there is 
many a monument, beautiful or queer — many an epitaph, 
appiopriate or absurd, touching or laughable — many a 
memorial of true love and grief, as well as of harmless vanity 
and aping fashion — which the great majority of visitors 
never see, and know nothing of. We would advise those 
who have the leisure for it, to take one part at a time. Fix 
on a certain portion of the ground for the extent of a single 
ramble, and explore it thoroughly with your guide book and 
Map. A few visits made in this way will accomplish the 
whole, easily, satisfactorily, yes, delightfully. 

Proprietors of lots are entitled to admittance at all times 
on showing their tickets, but on Sundays only on foot, unless 
they have special permits from the office of the Cemetery. 

Persons not proprietors will be admitted at all times, 
except on Sundays, by procuring tickets at the office of the 
Cemetery. 

None but Lot-Owners, and their households, will be ad- 
mitted on horseback, and they only by obtaining a special 
ticket of admission at the Office of the Cemetery. 

Fast driving is strictly prohibited. 

Driving on the paths not allowed. 

Smoking not allowed. 

Dogs will not be admitted. 

Persons having baskets, or any like articles, must, during 
their stay in the grounds, leave them in charge of the 
Keepers of the Gates. 

Ko horses may be left by the driver unfastened. 

All persons are prohibited from picking any flowers, 
either wild or cultivated, or breaking any tree, shrub, or 
plant. 

All persons are prohibited from writing upon, defacing, 
or injuring any monument, fence, or other structure in or 
belonging to the Cemetery. 

Any person disturbing the quiet and good order of the 
place by noise, or other improper conduct, or who shall 
violate any of the foregoing rules, will be compelled instantly 
to leave the grounds. 

The Keepers of the Gates are charged to prohibit the en- 
trance of all improper persons, though presenting tickets, 



156 GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 

and all those who may be known to have, at any time, wil- 
fully transgressed the regulations of the Cemetery. 

Persons going to Greenwood can take Hamilton or Ful- 
ton Ferry Boats to Brooklyn, thence by street cars, which 
.run every few minutes direct to Greenwood. 

PRICE OF LOTS, &C 

The price of lots range, generally, from $300 to $600 
each, according to their location. Smaller plots, but not 
less than one-fourth of a lot, will be sold at a small advance 
above the proportionate rates. These prices include all 
charges for grading and for mowing the grass as often as 
may be needed. 

The size of each lot is 14 by 27 feet. 

The Surveyor or Superintendent of Interments will always 
be on the grounds to aid those wishing to purchase. 

The form of the lots varies sometimes according to cir- 
cumstances, depending upon the peculiar surface of the 
gt-ound, and the character of the improvements contemplated. 
Tnus, lots are given in circular, square, oblong, octagonal or 
oval form, as the circumstances of each case render desirable. 

Proprietors may dispose of their lots, and have the transfer 
recorded on the books of the company by the payment of 
two dollars for each transfer. 

The proprietor of each lot shall have the right to erect 
any proper stones, monuments, or sepulchral structures 
thereon, except that no slab shall be set in any other than a 
horizontal position ; that no vault shall be built entirely or 
partially above ground, without permission of the Company, 
and that all monuments, and all parts of vaults above ground, 
shall be of cut stone, granite or marble. The proprietor of 
ea< h lot shall also have the right to cultivate trees, shrubs, 
and plants in the same ; but no tree, growing within the lot 
or border, shall be cut down or destroyed, without the con- 
sent of the Company. 

No wall exceeding eighteen inches in height above the 
surface, nor iron railing exceeding three feet in height, may 
be erected without special permission being obtained. 

No person allowed to be interred in the Cemetery who 
shall have died in any prison, or shall have been executed 
for any crime. 



ENVIRONS OF THE CITY. 157 

The Charter authorizes the Corporation to receive upon 
trust any donation or bequest for the purpose of improving 
or embellishing the Cemetery generally, or any cemetery 
lot, and for the erection, preservation, and renewal of any 
monumental structure and enclosure. 

All moneys received have been thus applied, either in 
immediate expenditure, or in the formation of a Permanent 
Improvement Fund, which, when augmented by future sales, 
will afford an adequate income, before the lots are all sold 
to keep the grounds and improvements perpetually in per- 
fect order. This Fund amounted, on the 1st January 1872 
to nearly $600,000. 



THE ENVIRONS OF THE CITY. 



The environs of New York abound in picturesque retreats 
for the lover of rural beauty. Not only are abundant facili- 
ties rendered available to the pleasure tourist, in the multi- 
plicity of modes of conveyance by land or by water, but the 
geographical position of the metropolis places within the 
circuit of a few miles almost every variety of beautiful 
scenery, as well as villages, towns, and localities of historic 
interest. For a cool sea-breeze and pleasing aquatic excur- 
sion, the trip by the steamer for Shrewsbury and Long 
Branch, or Coney Island, will be found full of interest. 
Boats for the former leave foot of Robinson street North 
River, and Peck Slip, East River, daily ; for the latter the 
boat starts from the foot of Battery Place. 



STATEN ISLAND 



Is a place of much attraction as a summer resort, and the 
boats make the trip every hour from Whitehall Dock, near 
the Battery. Ihe scenery is exceedingly fine; aijd the 
drives to the Telegraph Station, Stapleton, Richmond, New 
Brighton, with their clusters of beautiful villas and country 
seats, are full of attraction. 



158 ENVIRONS OF THE CITY. 



HOBOKEN. 



On the New Jersey shore is Hoboken, with its Elysian 
fields and pleasure grounds, the bold bluffs of Weohawken, 
the Sybil's cave, and the memorable spot of the duel between 
Colonel Burr and General Hamilton. The boats for Hoboken 
leave every half-hour from Canal street, Barclay street, and 
Christopher street ferries. 

FLUSHING. 

A pleasant trip to the entrance of Long IslaiuJ Sound 
brings one to Flushing — a remarkably rural and picturesque 
town, with extensive botanic gardens, nurseries, and numer- 
ous elegant residences. It is a chosen suburban retreat of 
the New Yorkers. The Flushing boat leaves twice a day 
the dock adjoining the Fulton Ferry. 

Bay Side, situated about four miles from Flushing, is a 
delightful place for a day's excursion ; the scenery is beauti- 
ful, and the bay is famous for its clams — a roast of chowder 
served up in primitive style being one of the features of the 
place. This place can be reached by private conveyance 
only, but which can be obtained at Flushing at moderate 
charges. 

FORT HAMILTON. 

An attractive place on the southwestern shore of Long Island, 
about five miles from the city; and 

CONEY ISLAND, 

A short distance beyond, forming a part of Gravesend Town- 
ship. It can be reached by boat from Pier No. 1, North 
River, or by cars from Brooklyn. 

Time was when this sea-girt, barren sand-heap, was the 
only fashionable sea-bathing resort for New-Yorkers, and 
when its beach was thronged with the beauty and the 
refinement of Manhattan Island and Brooklyn. But its 
nearness to the city, and the increasing facilities of reaching 
it, caused it to be speedily monopolised, with few exceptions, 
by the rougher classes and loose characters, and it was long 
ago abandoned by the " upper ten" for fresher waves and 
beaches more remote. 



ENVIRONS OF THE CITY. 159 



JAMAICA, 



Which is easy of access by the L. I. Railroad, South Ferry, 
which leaves three or four times a day, is an interesting old 
rural town, and is the highway of communication to Hemp- 
stead, Greenpoint, Rockaway and Montauk : the last-named 
on the extremity of the island, affords a magnificent view of 
the broad ocean, which there skirts the horizon in almost 
every direction. There is a remnant of the pure Indian still 
living on this eastern extremity of the coast. 

throg's point 

Is another pleasing excursion. Sixteen miles from the city. 
It is the termination, at Long Island Sound, of Throgg's, or 
rather Throgmorton's Neck. From this headland, which 
divides the East River from the Sound, a very splendid 
view is obtained. Fort Schuyler, on the point, and Pelham 
Bridge, may be embraced in this excursion. 

ASTORIA. 

An eighth excursion may take for its terminus the 
thriving village of Astoria, six miles to the north east of 
New York. The academy, botanic gardens, &c. are worthy 
of notice ; but its most interesting feature is the singular 
whirlpool in its ijeighborhood, denominated Hell Gat — 
41 Helle Gate''— by the Dutch. 

MONTAUK. 

On the extremity of Long Island, and almost surrounded 
by water, affords a magnificent view of the broad Atlantic, 
which here laps the horizon in almost every direction. 
One of the most interesting features of the neighborhood is 
a remnant of the pure Indian still living on the eastern 
extremity of the coast. They mostly subsist by fishing, 
their dress and manners are rude and picturesque and they 
still retain, in a small measure, the dialect of their red 
forefathers. 

CROTON DAM. 

A visit to the great Croton Aqueduct is one of the most 
interesting expeditions, as well as the easiest, that could be 



160 FORTS AND FORTIFICATIONS. 

devised. The village of Croton is about 35 miles from the- 
city, which is reached best by the Hudson River Raihoad 
The famous Dam pertaining to the works is well worthy of 
a visit. The lake, measuring five miles, covers an area of 
400 acres; it is formed by a dam 250 long, and 38 feet wide 
at the base, allowing a discharge of 60 million gallons of 
water daily. 



FORTS AND FORTIFICATIONS. 



The national defences of New York comprise the follow 
ing: — The strong fortifications of the Narrows — on the one 
side Forts Tompkins and Fort Richmond at the lower verge 
of the Staten Island shore. These fortifications are quite 
new, are constructed of grey stone, mounted with guns of large 
calibre, and are among the most imposing objects that first 
greet the vision of the passenger from the water-waste. The 
water-battery is the most fort-like in appearance, but, in the 
event of a fleet of iron clads undertaking to force an entrance, 
would probably prove more vulnerable than the batteries 
on the heights, from which a continuous volley of plunging 
shot could be directed with as much effect as from Gibral- 
tar or any stronghold in the world. 

Opposite, on the Long Island shore, is the formidable 
Fort Hamilton, which numbers in its armament several of 
the celebrated Rodman guns, whose iron spherical shot of 
one thousand pounds would prove disagreeable to the sides 
of almost any iron ship-of-war that floats ; and also the old 
round, red lort Lafayette, isolated in the waves, and likely 
to prove more famous as a rebel prison than as an impreg- 
nable fortress in these days of improved warfare. 

1 o protect the inner haibor, there are Forts Columbus and 
Castle Willinm on Governor's Island, and the works on Bed- 
low's and Ellis Islands. 

Castle William, measuring 600 feet in circumference, and 



FORTS AND FORTIFICATIONS. 



161 



60 feet high, is a circular stone battery connecting with Fort 
Columbus on the same Island. Here are barracks and a 
corps of U. S. troops. 

Governor's Island — formerly known as Nut Island, from 
its formerly being covered with nut trees — was in colonial 
times, used by the English Governors as pleasure grounds. 
The several fortifications here may be easily seen by taking 
a boat from Castle Garden foot of the battery. 

The East River or Sound defences consist of Fort Schuy- 
ler on Throg's Neck, a large three tier gun fortification 
built of gray granite. Opposite on the Long Island shore 
the government are erecting new works both of granite and 
earth. These when completed it is expected will amply 
protect the city from any hostile fleet approaching from the 
direction of Long Island Sound. 



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162 



FOREIGN CONSULS IN NEW YORK 



Argentine Republic. — E. F. Davison, 128 Piarl. 
Austria. — T. A. Havemeyer, 33 Broadway. 
Belgium.— Charles Mali, 15 Worth. 
Bolivia.— J M. Munoz, 63 Pine. 
Brazil.— Louis H. F. D'Aguinr. 13 Broadway. 
Chile— Stephen Rogers, 249 W. 42d. 
Columbia — M. Jesurun (acting), 23 William. 
Costa Rica. — A. C. Garsia, 19 Broad. 
Denmark. — C. T. Christensen, 112 Front. 
Dominica, — D. A. De Lima, 23 William. 
Ecuador. — Nicholas R. Ansado, V. C , 19 Old Slip. 
France. — A. L. DeLa Forest, 4 Bowling Green. 
German Empire. — J. Rosing, 2 Bowling Green. 
^J Great Britain. — E M. Archibald, 17 Broadway. 

Guatemala. — B. Blanco, 13 S William. 

Hayti.— C. A. Vanbokkelen, 29 Eront. 

Hawaiian Islands. — S. U. F. Odell, 24 Beaver. 

Honduras.— E G. Squier, Res. Min. 135 E. 39th. 

Italy. — Ferdinando de Luca, 7 Broadway. 

Liberia. — H. M. SehiefFelin, 42 Bible House. 

Mexico (Republic). — Juan Navarro, 52 Exchange pi. 

Monaco. — L. Dejardin, 4 Bowling gr. 

Netherlands. — R. C. Burlage, 45 Exchange pi. 

Norway. — C. Bors, 18 Exchange pi. 

Paraguay. — R. Mullowney, 91 Wall. 

Peru. — J. C. Tracy, 26£ Broadway. 

Portugal. — M. Pereira de Sotto Major, 148 Pearl. 

Russia. — Waldemar de Bodisco Exchange place. 

Salvador. — -lose Jerman Ribon, $3 I'ine. 

Spain. — Hipolito de Uriarte, 29 Broadway. 

Switzerland. — Louis P. de Luze, 23 John. 

Turkey. — C. Oscanyau 66 Broadway. 

Uruguay. — Edwin C. B. Garsia, 19 Broad. 

Venezuela. — F. Rifcao. 121 Front. 



163 
FASHIONABLE WATERING PLACES. 



NEWPORT. 

The routes to Newport, R. L, from New York are by 
Fall River line of steamboats; or via New Haven, New 
London & Si:onington, to Wick ford, there connecting by 
ferry with Newport. Newport is situated on an island in 
Nairagansett Bay, and has long been celebrated as a healthy 
locality and fashionable wat jring-place. The cool sea- 
breezes, which moderate the he ,t of summer and the splendid 
views Newport affords, combine to render it an attractive 
and favorite resort. The hotel accommodations are unsur- 
passed, and private boarding-houses numerous. Visitors and 
invalids will find plenty of amusement in fishing, sailing, 
sea-bathiug, &c. Distance from New York, 165 miles. The 
Ocean House has first-class accommodations for 400 guests. 
The Fillmore and Aquidreck are the only other houses open. 

LONG BRANCH. 

Long Branch N. J., is thirty miles from New York, on the 
eastern shore. Steamboats "Jesse Hoyt" and "Plymouth 
Rock' 1 leave New York from Pier 28, North River, for Sandy 
Hook, connecting there with New Jersey Southern Railway 
for Long Branch. 

For those who enjoy sea-bathing, Long Branch offers par- 
ticular inducements. Hotels : Mansion, United States, Con- 
tinental, and West End. 

ROCKAWAY BEACH. 

Visitors to Rockaway Beach proceed from New York to 
Brooklyn, thence by South Side Railway via Jamaica. The 
Beach affords excellent bathing, and has become quite a 
fashionable watering-place. 

CAPE MAY. . 

This is a fashionable and very delightful resort during the 
summer months, and is much frequented by parties from 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the West. Cape May may be 



164 WATERING PLACES. 

reached by the Philadelphia and Cape May Railway Lines, 
from the Ferry, foot of Market street Philadelphia, or by the 
steamboat lines from New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. 

SARATOGA. 

Persons visiting Saratoga from New York can take either 
the Hudson River or Harlem Railway cars, or the steamboat 
to Aibany or Troy — from Albany, via Albany division of 
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway; from Troy, via Rensse- 
laer and Saratoga Railway. 

Saratoga Springs is the most celebrated watering-place in 
the United States, and is resorted to from all parts of the 
Union It is situated in northern New York, 184 miles from 
New York City, and 39 miles north of Albany. 

Saratoga Lake, seven miles from the springs, is a pretty 
sheet of water, with good boating and fishing. A fine car- 
riage-drive is now being made from the springs to the lake, 
which, when finished, will add much to the attractions of 



Saratoga. 



NIAGARA FALLS. 



These falls can be reached from New York by the Hudson 
River and New York Central and Erie Railways. 

Niagara Falls are situated on the Niagara River, fourteen 
miles Irom Lake Ontario, and are so famous all over the 
world for their stupendous size and magnificence as to render 
a description of them almost unnecessary. There are, how- 
ever, some objects of interest connected with a visit to these 
falls, which may be worth while pointing out to the atten- 
tion of the tourists. The best view that can be obtained of 
the whole cataract is from the Canadian shore, at a point 
called Table Rock. The American Fall, though nothing- 
like the width of the Canadian, is six feet higher than the 
latter, having a descent of 164 feet. At Bath Island, which 
is connected with the mainland and Goat Island by a bridge, 
visitors register their names, and, by the payment of 25c, 
can visit all the islands without extra charge. A stone 
tower forty five feet high has been erect on Terrapin Bridge, 
from the top of which a splendid view of the foaming waters 
can be had. The Biddle Stairs are on Goat Island, and have 
a descent of 1 80 feet in all. From the foot of these stairs there 
are three paths ; one leads to Crescent, or Horseshoe Falls ; 



WATERING PLACES. 165 

another, to the right, leads to the Cave of Winds ; and the 
third runs to the river below. Persons wishing to pass be- 
hind the sheet of water will find a guide who will furnish a 
suitable dress at Table Rock. The rapids above the falls, 
and the whirlpool below, are well worthy a visit, especially 
the former. 

There are several fine hotels at Niagara Falls for the 
accommodation of visitors ; the International, the Cataract, 
near the American Fall, and. the Clinton House on the 
Canada side are the best. 

WHITE MOUNTAINS. 

From New York, via New York and New Haven and 
Connecticut River Railways ; also by way of Hudson River. 

The White Mountains are situated in Coose County, New 
Hampshire, and consists of a number of mountain peaks 
from four to six thousand feet in altitude, the highest of 
them being Mount Washington, which is 6,243 feet above 
the level of the sea, and possesses the greatest attraction to 
tourists. Its ascent has lately become quite fashionable with 
visitors to the mountains. The " Notch" is a narrow gorge 
between two enormous cliffs, extending for a distance of two 
miles. Its entrance is about twenty feet wide, and the 
mountain scenery, diversified by beautiful cascades falling 
over perpendicular rocks, is grand in the extreme. The 
principal hotels are Crawford's and the Glen House. 

scott,1platt & CO., 

121 1 Broadway, (bet. 29th and 30th Sts.,) 

IMPORTERS OF 

CHOICE PERFUMES, 

RICH FANCY GOODS, 

FINE TOILET ARTICLES, 

SIPOXsTQ-ES, POCKET BOOKS, POCKET CUTLERY, 

G-old Pens and Pencils. 

Cosmetics or Preparations for the Skin, Hair Dressings and Restoratives, 

Brushes, Combs, and every imaginable TOILET REQUISITE, 

in the most complete variety, and at prices 

25 T*ei' Cent, less than the usual Trade. 



